Tuesday 9 August

Lovely sunny morning.

I had a good look round the Big Lodge.

Canada Geese on the old raft.

Terns still sitting on the new raft.

Swan family

Also saw the Great Crested Grebe with their one chick, too far away for a descent photo.

 Water Mint - Mentha aquatica

 Water Mint - Mentha aquatica

 Bread Wheat - Triticum aestivum

Fat Hen - Chenopodium album

Take Care.

Saturday 6 August

Knott End Plants

Showers this morning, quite heavy at times.

 Buckshorn Plantain - Plantago coronopus tiny plant and the flower stems are hardly noticitable.

 Fat Hen - Chenopodium album

 Sea Beet - Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima

 Sea Beet - Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima

 Sea Beet - Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima

 Sea Beet - Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima

 Sea Plantain - Plantago maritima

Sea Plantain - Plantago maritima

Take Care.

Monday 25 July

Dry Morning and we wandered about after first looking around Dry Bones.

 Broad Leaved Dock - Rumex obtusifolius

 Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Fat Hen - Chenopodium album

 Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

 Slime Mould - Tubifera ferruginosa all the colour has gone and it is hardly noticeable.

 Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

Take Care.

Tuesday 27 July

Sea Side again.

Dovesfoot Cranesbill - Geranium molle

Fat Hen - Chenopodium album

Garden Speedwell - Veronica longifolia

First time I have seen this growing wild it's a lovely garden plant, must be from one of the nearby gardens, it looks quite settled.

Garden Speedwell - Veronica longifolia

Garden Speedwell - Veronica longifolia

Red Valerian - Centranthus ruber

Rest-harrow - Ononis repens

Rest-harrow - Ononis repens

Sea Mayweed - tripleurospermum maritimum

Soapwort - Saponaria officinallis

Clock at Knott End on Sea.

Take Care.

Wednesday 16 June

Sunny morning.

Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Skipper

Apple Mint - Mentha x villosa

Burnet Moth

Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Fat-hen - Chenopodium album

Fungi with my mobile phone for scale.

It was on Sycamore

Ground Elder - Aegopodium podagraria

Hairy Sedge - Carex hirta

Hedge Mustard - Sisymbrium officinale

Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium

Speckled Wood

Swan & 5 cygnets

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care.