It looks as though someone has thrown a bowl of soapy washing up suds over the field. Some people call this white froth, "cuckoo spit"...

I've been watching the Fallow deer in the field opposite again. The bucks (males) and does (females) tend to be in separate groups at...

Bird's nest orchids cannot make their own food (they have no chlorophyll, the green pigment that most plants use for photosynthesis) but...

Several times an hour the jackdaw nestlings in our chimney start to squawk as their parents bring food. I often see them arrive or leave...

Purple Rhododendron blooms can be seen everywhere at the moment. They look magnificent in gardens as they love the acid soils around...

So many birds are leaving the nests at the moment but as I passed this tree, I could hear loud squawking from inside. This bold youngster...

Have you ever seen a slime mould? I spotted these two this morning. Actually these are single celled organisms that can live on their...

Fox cubs are usually born sometime in March or early April. These have just started to appear in my mother's garden in Forest Row. Last...

For some reason it isn't always easy to upload photos to this blog. Here are a few signs to watch out for if you are being a detective....

The weather hasn't been great for wildlife watching today. My lucky mother had two fox cubs playing in her garden this morning but I...

You don't have to go far to see the brightest, most beautiful flower. Our lawn is covered in buttercups at the moment. There are so...

You may have seen the pictures of the school staff showing the hobbies that help them to feel good. Being out in nature has been shown to...

Since we left school, I have been lucky enough to walk on Ashdown Forest with my dogs. We have had amazing weather and since the...

We had assumed that a mouse had eaten all our seedlings but when my husband threw away his pear core on the vegetable patch, this vole...

Yesterday morning I was watching birds near Gill's Lap. By the evening the area had been burnt. Sadly this is the worst time of year as...

If you are out on Ashdown Forest look out for patches of this pinky-purple flower. It is actually semi parasitic, taking nutrients from...

On my walks on the Forest lately, the most noticeable bird is definitely the Stonechat. They perch on gorse bushes and pines, announcing...

At the moment, the noisiest bird in our garden is a blackbird. He is the first to sing in the morning and the last at night....