Monday 5 May

Another lovely day

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

 This is the bottom end of the Lower Burgh Meadow - Plock Wood, I am now calling it Funeral Pyre Wood, more have set on fire and believe me they are big enough to burn a body on - I can only class it as total disregard for wild life and the wood.

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Ribwort - Plantago lanceolata a favourite nickname for us is Turk's Hat

 Thyme Leaved Speedwell - Veronica serpyllifolia

Water Avens - Geum rivale

Take Care

Wednesday 25 May

Dry Morning

 Colt's-foot - Tussilago farfara

 Common Water-crowfoot - Ranunculus aquatilis

 Common Water-starwort - Callitriche stagnalis

 Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

 Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

 Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

 Great Crest Grebes one of them has a baby under it's wing

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

 Honesty - Lunaria annua

 Londonpride - Saxifraga umbrosa x spathularis = S. x urbium

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Three new wood carvings on the park

Take Care

Tuesday 3 May

Sunny pleasant morning and plenty of life in all forms.

Apple - Malus sp.

Bog Stitchwort - Stellaria alsine

Bog Stitchwort - Stellaria alsine

Bog Stitchwort - Stellaria alsine

caterpillars, inchworms - IDs most welcome - first two on Apple the last three on Hornbeam.

Dog's Mercury  Seeds- Mercurialis perennis

Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Mallard Mum and 11 babies - we hope she manages to keep them all.

Oxeye Daisy Bud - Leucanthemum vulgare

Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

Solomon's seal - Polygonatum multiflorum

Take Care.

Wednesday 23 June

Up onto the Burgh this morning, we usually have a walk up there when we are on our own.

I have been searching for the Bee Orchid on Lower Burgh for a good while and today we found it (twice), the first was on it's own we checked all round it and did not find any more but we will check again, the second area we found 3 plants within 6 feet of each other, one of them had been nibbled by something possibly a slug.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Burnet Moth

Common Knapweed - Centaurea nigra

Creeping Jenny - Lysimachia nummularia this is along side of the railway sidings.

Dames Violet - Hesperis Matronalis

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

Hieracium vagum

Large Bindweed - Calystegia silvatica

Marsh Bedstraw - Galium palustre

Nipplewort - Lapsana communis

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia - all garden escapees.

Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Self Heal - Prunella vulgaris

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Spider's Web

Edwina with 4 Cygnets - we were all wondering what had happened to the missing one - what could have taken it?

When out of the reeds Edward appeared with the other cygnet, it had up set a few people thinking one had been taken, they all seem fit & healthy so let's hope they all make it.

Take Care.