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Anyone know what this is? Body length about an inch, and large antlers must have been in region of 2-3 inches.

A quick thought Alice, about fencing. A 21 acre field is very large to fence, I'm guessing expensive too...but would it be affordable/possible to have a smaller area of 'mobile' fencing? Something you could move around and keep a much smaller number of animals, but move them around onto bits that ne...

Just wanted to post a couple of photos of one of the plants I couldn't identify in the spring, now that its in flower. Judging by the flower I think you got this right Alex! These flowers are now standing in stems about 70cm tall. I think that each flower only lives for a day as they seem to disappe...

I completely agree about the Barn owl Trust, I just watched their video on this forum and found it fascinating and compelling. It was a comment from Katie Sykes ( topic; South Hams meadows) about two barn owls hunting on her land that inspired me to look it up. Even though I've never seen a barn owl...

Just to add a couple of photos I took here of the White Admiral. Probably female as they're slightly larger and lighter brown than the males.

Hundreds of Meadow Browns gracing the meadows this year along with Ringlets,Common Blues and Large Skippers……but yet to see a Marbled White .Elsewhere on the farm topping has had to be curtailed as the Peacocks have taken over a nettle patch. It's a great pleasure to see butterflies increase in the...

Interesting, thanks Alex. I have just looked it up, and I have seen some small blue flowers rather like those of pale flax in another field last year, so maybe that's it. I'll watch carefully for flowers this year.

Hi Alex...for some reason your post didn't appear until today, so I posted my reply before I'd seen yours! Sorry.

Lovely book. It does look like lavender but I'm offering another possibility. Its a bit of an outsider but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw your photo. Betony. I've joined a couple of photos of betony in my field, and a dried head...the dried one looks much more spiky I know, but ...

Thanks Richard , that's really helpful. The toadflax (possibly) I'll keep watching and see if I can catch it in flower. I've just looked up Cinnabar moths. I haven't noticed any here, despite plenty of Ragwort. But there is some similarity to Burnet moths by the look of it, of which there are many, ...