I love ecological journeys. I love discovery. I love digging deeper. But I have a simple mind and I can never remember things. In my youth, I spent a lot of time on my hands and knees, identifying plants. But now, as I am occupied with other things, I...

RSPB Coombes Valley is a beautiful place to explore all of nature, or simply to walk in the peace and tranquility of our wooded valley. If you come at this time of year, the signs of spring are everywhere, new life is bursting through, wild flowers are...

Thankyou Jacqui. She has kindly written this blog with her photographs after her visit to Coombes on the 8th May. I particularly like this sentence ..... 'The path led ever downwards, a bit like a page from Tolkien, wending through light woodlands...

If you wander across the field to Valley View Point - just nr the information centre - you'll see dock leaves being muched on by lots of this beetle. I don't think it's got an English name but it does have a fancy latin name - Gastrophysa...

Melanie tells us about working together and an important project for connecting people to nature............................ Here at Coombes we are working with local partners ... on a project called Stepping Stones to Nature (funded by Natural England...