The Cary's Meadow Fairy Doors Trail

This is Ben, he eats worms, and he eats lizards, frogs, rodents, birds, insects, bulbs, seeds and berries. He loves juicy worms the most! He lives in a den on the edge of a big forest where it’s peaceful. He sleeps during the day and comes out at night to hunt for food. It’s the […]

Deep in the grassland a snake was slithering. It shot from point to point. But this isn’t any snake…this was a heavy constrictor. Stripy green anaconda! It senses prey, a small male lion! It’s predator vs predator. The anaconda leaps up and grabs the lion by its tail. The lion roars the snake attacks coiling

It was a cold cloudy day and Wilber the otter was sitting on his favourite rock which was large and smooth. The route he had taken to get there was an exciting walk from his holt along the way there were holes like canyons, bumps and sometimes fallen down trees. The river bobbed beside him.

Chapter 1 The Battle  If you do not like murder do not read this. This is my first murder case and this is what happened.  Hello my name is Heppy, I’m a detective house martin. I live in the beautiful countryside at 221B Baker Street with my sweet family and helpful friends.  It was breakfast time

Wendy was a water vole. She lived in a burrow next to a clear river. She ate plants, roots, fruits and bulbs. But her very favourite was blackberries. Wendy was very happy living there on her own in her burrow, when one day something happened. She was munching on some grass one afternoon when she

In a forest, there was a family. They were animals. No, not that kind of animal, a real animal, otters. BUT. There was something odd about those otters that I’ll let you guess what it is. No, they don’t have spikes, no, they have tails, and no, they don’t have fangs. Shall I tell you?

It was dusk, Okhpongching was cold and hungry.  He had been resting but he wanted to eat some delicious brown and shiny conkers.  He had a long walk to his favourite horse chestnut tree.  Okhpongching ran across the open fields and found a gap in the hedge.  He was almost there! Suddenly he hears a

I’m an orphan who rules the skies and the countryside of Norfolk. Me and the other sixteen red kites are all friends; except for one who we call the terrekite!! He’s been a big nasty bird since childhood.  But I’ll tell you that story another time… Now we go back a long time ago.  I

Ever heard of the phrase ‘Loved to Death’?  Well, that almost happened to me. It all startedon a beautiful sunny day in February.  Me and hundreds of other seals were born amongst the grassy dunes, being raised by out mothers….most of the time.  When we are born we get loads of visitors, but there is

Can you hear them, flying quick?Here they come, swooping thick. Furry, flying little friends, zipping fingers, zoom-y bends. Can you see them in the sky?Sweeping near the stars, so high. Midges. Munch. Moths. Crunch.Yummy, zippy, beastie lunch! ‘Bats about Bats!’ is part of a new series of poems by Ruthie Collins, inspired by biodiversity and the