Friday 14 June

Damp Morning

One of our commonest Hawkbits Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

Take Care.

Tuesday 27 September

Dry Morning.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bird Pellet - about 2 inches / 5cm in size I know these are studied so I have no doubt someone will be able to tell us who did it?

 Big Lodge 

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

 Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Later I had a walk down the New Road still plenty in flower.

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Enteridium Lycoperdon a slime mold.

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Bridge below Sunny Mount

 Sunny Mount Entrance

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Honeysuckle  - Lonicera periclymenum

 Path through the Rucks

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

Speckled Wood

Take Care.

Saturday 18 June

Dry again

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Common Figwort - Scrophularia nodosa

 Compact Rush - Juncus conglomeratus

 Compact Rush - Juncus conglomeratus

 Enchanter's Nightshade - Circaea lutetiana

 Honeysuckle  - Lonicera periclymenum - as we walked toward this mass of Honeysuckle we could smell the wonderful scent long before we saw it.

Nipplewort - Lapsana communis

 Large Bindweed bud beautiful without it's flower - Calystegia silvatica

Large Bindweed bud with tip of flower showing - Calystegia silvatica

Take Care.

Saturday 11 June

Warm & Sunny at Knott End and the whole beach to ourselves.

 Beach Scene looking toward the Sea Wall

 Beach Scene - to the left are apartment shells that have never been touched for years, the housing climate has been poor - they may never be completed. The building to the right is the North Euston Hotel in Fleetwood

 Beach Scene - Fleetwood

 Beach Scene - Fleetwood

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Beach Scene - we did have to share the beach with the gulls. They would not even move for Meg.

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

Sea Purslane - Atriplex portulacoides

Take Care.

Sunday 31 October

Damp this morning, we ambled about looking at areas we have missed during the week. Still a few flowers about. 

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

Red Campion - Silene dioica

Red Campion - Silene dioica

Red Clover - Trifolium pratense

Scentless Mayweed - Tripleurospermum inodorum

Swans

Big Lodge

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Take care.