The weather was glorious on my recent volunteering shift at Attingham Park, perfect weather to explore Ismore Meadow afterwards. The meadow is accessible for a few weeks in summer until the grass is cut for hay by the tenant farmer around mid-July.
As I returned from the meadow some deer treated me with their presence. Such [...]
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Meadow Walk at Attingham
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2025
The Mexican Red Knee lives on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in dry forest and desert habitats
Whe threatened they will not hisitate to flick hairs from their abdomen using their back legs. We call these ‘urticating Hairs’ and they can cause itchiness, swelling respiratory issues if inhaled.
Female Red Knee tarantulas can live to by as [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2025
The Malagasy Giant Chameleon is native to the island of Madagascar, off the coast of Africa.
They are the largest chameleon in length and the secon heaviset in weight. Although their typical diet is insects their large size also enables them to eat small birds and reptiles.
Chamelons are famous for changing colour. However, this colour change [...]
5 Comments CherryPie on Mar 17th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
Koi Carp
The butterfly in the final photo of my previous post was perched looking over the Koi swimming below.
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
Butterflies
A few of the many varieties of butterflies that flutter around Stratford-upon-Avon butterfly farm.
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 13th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
I seem, like everything else, to be a center, a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe realizes itself. Each and every one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in the way it does, only because everything else around it does. The individual and the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2024
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2024
