When to visit · Seasonal guide

Something is always happening.
Here is what, and when.

The site changes more between March and September than most places change in a decade. These are the markers:

March – April: First arrivals

• Orange-tip butterflies emerge

• Cuckoo flowers bloom in the margins

• Choughs active on cliff turf

• Sand martins back from Africa

• Frogs spawn in the pond

• Swallows and swifts hunting low

• Bluebells peak in the woodland

• Porpoise off Strumble Head

• Sedge warblers singing at dusk

• Thrift on the cliff edge

• Swallows gathering on wires

• Redwings arriving from Iceland

• Brambles at peak on the banks

• Fungi in the hedgerow base

• Milky Way clearest of the year

May – June: Full noise

July – August: Long light

September: Before the quiet

Creator: M.POWIS

• Red kites soaring the thermals

• Glow-worms after 10pm

• Gorse in second flower

• Pipistrelles working hedgerows

• Young choughs learning to feed