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We used the lovely Woodland Trust Fingle Woods Spring Nature Detectives spotter sheets and learned how to identify Lesser Celandine and Wood Anenome during April in Dog Marsh. A big highlight of our John Muir Award was to help the National Trust to build an otter holt in the Dog Marsh/Fingle Wood area! Our toy otter from the Otter Sanctuary got to try it out😊

A misty Christmas Day in Dog Marsh. Waterlogged fields and lots of mud! The cattle are still out enjoying the green grasses. This is the end of our year of appreciating the lovely Dog Marsh walk. One of the best things about the walk is that it leads you to explore other areas like the Hunters Path, Castle Drogo and Fingle Woods. Next year we will be continuing with our John Muir Award Journey, exploring the wider Fingle Woods.

The mud season has arrived again! Cold mornings and not much frost yet but enough to wilt some of the nasturtiums in our garden. There are some bright days but it’s getting colder. The leaves are falling and there is fungus popping up in the grasses. The cows are still in the fields. The hedgehog is still busy in our garden in the evenings. We watched two buzzards and crows flying together and were told by birdwatchers that it is the crows trying to get rid of the buzzards from their territory. One buzzard and one crow seemed to particularly be drawn to each other and flew with each other for several minutes. Possibly a young crow learning how the world works!

Brown fields are changing to green again.

The cows are in the dog marsh fields now, making the most of the new green grass growth. It’s been a very tough year for the farmers who had to use winter food stores to get through the drought.

A view of the Chagford Show at Dog Marsh taken from the Deer Park