Wednesday 1 June

Dry morning and a walk onto the Lower Burgh Meadow.

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Coot Eggs by the Big Lodge.

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Mugwort - Artemisia vulgaris

 Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Yellow Iris

Take Care.

Saturday 14 May

Showers this morning.

 Dactylorhiza x grandis - Hybrid - found this one on the pond field.

 Dactylorhiza x grandis - Hybrid Orchid with eggs - I would love to know what these are from, they remind me of Dock Beetle eggs but seem too uniform, I also thought of the Large White butterfly - I look forward to any answers and I will try to visit this plant again.

White Clover - Trifolium repens

Take Care.

Sunday 8 May

Showers again.

Beech - Fagus sylvatica

Coot Nest

One of the Coots that built it.

Dock Beetle Eggs

Lucy - how has she got herself into this mess at the Deer carving Channel.

Oak Apple Gall

Yellow Water Lily - Nuphar lutea

Take Care.

Tuesday 26 April

Dry again

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Common Bistort  - Persicaria bistorta

 Duck Egg

 Duck Egg

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 Welsh Poppy Bud - Meconopsis cambrica

Wilson's Honeysuckle - Lonicera nitida

Take Care.

Saturday 22 May

We are getting some hot weather at the moment, perhaps the plants will catch up now.

5 cygnets & Mum, did not see Dad.

I'd lay Chester Cup odds that these are the eggs of the Green Dock Beetle - Gastrophysa viridulametallic, they are prolific around this area and they are on Dock :)

Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

Red Clover - Trifolium pratense

Pignut - Conopodium majus

Creeping Buttercup - Ranunculus repens

Celery-leaved Buttercup - Ranunculus sceleratus

I had not much time to look as I was already way behind  so I have noted it to find again (famous last words) Have you ever gone back to look for anything and found it as easy as you did the first time.

Celery-leaved Buttercup leaf - Ranunculus sceleratus

Take Care.