Author: Wheatland Farm

The February frog chorus at Wheatland Farm’s eco lodges! It’s the precursor for the annual summer froglet extravaganza that really gets going in June.

Winter tidying-up around the Wheatland Farm eco lodges often reveals dormouse or harvest mice nests like these ones.

It’s not properly February until the frogspawn turns up in Wheatland Farm’s ponds. As normal, we’ve first spotted it in the lodge field pond – on the 5th, though it could have been laid earlier.

We’re thrilled to find Wheatland Farm listed this morning in a Guardian Top Ten list of eco friendly places to stay in Europe.

Thanks to Wheatland Farm guest Nicola Clarke for sending us these lovely images of a fox cub that ‘came out to explore’ right outside Honeysuckle Lodge.

#30DaysWild no. 24: The frog / toad exodus from the Wheatland Farm wildlife pond is in full swing!

#30DaysWild no 23: The sparrows are learning to hover so they can get at the suspended feeders at Wheatland Farm!

#30DaysWild no 22. With the sunshine coming back at Wheatland Farm, so are the butterflies, like this Painted Lady.

#30DaysWild no 20. At Wheatland Farm sometimes we don’t get around to weeding the patio…

#30DaysWild no 18. The Great Spotted Woodpecker has brought its baby to the Wheatland Farm bird feeders. Here’s a clip of the adult collecting some food and taking it to feed the young bird waiting in the relative safety of the vegetation.

#30DaysWild no 17: Our favourite Wheatland Farm robin seems to have finally raised a family.

How exciting! #30DaysWild no 16, the Devon dragonfly recorder confirms that this beautiful beast, which we found yesterday, is a Scarce Chaser, and is the first record for the North Devon region.

30DaysWild no 15: this Golden Ringed Dragonfly, resting in the turbine field at Wheatland Farm, let us get close enough to take pictures with a mobile phone.

#30DaysWild no 13 this startlingly green spider was spotted on stonework as we hung up the acres of washing from our eco lodge ‘change over’ day. Small is beautiful – if a little creepy. Or at least creepy crawly.