Friday 1 June

Dry

 Inch Worm on Oak

 Crane Fly

 Fly

 Snipe Fly

Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Take Care

Friday 25 May

Dry Morning

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus pratensis

 Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus pratensis

 Rhododendron - Rhododendron ponticum

 Ribwort - Plantago lanceolata

 Silver-ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata

Snipe Fly

Take Care

Friday 20 April

Dry Morning

 Bugle - Ajuga reptans

 Field Wood-rush - Luzula campestris

 This fly which we all called a greenbottle took a shine to George's coat has the fancy latin name of Gymnocheta viridis

 Primula spotted by Sue on Primrose Hill - someone has planted about four.

 Another spot by Sue - Roe Deer in their favourite spot.

Could only see two

We thought this was the remains of a Wood Pigeon

Take Care

Monday 22 August

Dry morning.

Up to the Lower Burgh Meadow & pond

 Bulrush - Typha latifolia

 Gatekeeper

 Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

 Meg

 Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

 Pedunculate Oak - Quercus robur

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

 Red Admiral

 Speckled Wood

Tachinid Fly - Tachina fera

Take Care.

Monday 11 July

On our own so we ambled about - it was dry and warm in the valley.

Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

Tutsan - Hypericum androsaemum

 Not a pretty sight but nature has to be seen in all it's facets - we think a crow...

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

 Speckled Wood a bit worn - by the old cottage ruins at Dry Bones.

Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Meadow Brown lots about on Primrose Hill.

Figwort Sawfly - Tenthredo scrophulariae

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Mugwort in Bud - Artemisia vulgaris

Yellow Iris Seed Pods - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care.

Wednesday 29 June

Dry morning for our walk over the Lower Burgh Meadow, it was alive with colour.

Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera  - Managed to find another plant but the one with buds on has vanished completely, hope it has just been eaten by slugs.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Common Poppy - Papaver rhoeas

Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Not really a fly person but these just made me look twice - all sun bathing in the same direction and angle.

Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Six Spot Burnet Moth

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Take Care