Sunday 25 September

Dry this morning.

 Great Crested Grebes

 Great Crested Grebe youngster.

 Fish Carving

 Part of the new play equipment already vandalised.

 Bramble Fruit - Rubus fruticosus

 Dog Rose Hips - Rosa canina

Sloe Berries - Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa

Take Care.

Thursday 18 August

Dry again.

 7 Spot Ladybird on Creeping Thistle

 Gatekeeper

Great Crested Grebe Chick 

 The chick is watching it's parent with the fish it has just caught.

The youngster was mimicking the parents every move.

Take Care.

Monday 15 August

Damp morning, we wandered about.

Got back to the lodges and the Grebe was still a good way off but I have cropped these to show the youngster on the parent's back.

This is the way to travel.

Take Care.

Tuesday 7 June

Cool but dry - we walked up to the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Beetle for ID

 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale

 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale

 Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale

 Common Knapweed  bud - Centaurea nigra

 Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

 Common Toadflax not quite open - Linaria vulgaris

 Great Crested Grebe

 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

 Lady's Bedstraw in bud - Galium verum

 Redshank - Persicaria maculosa

Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Take Care.

Tuesday 4 May

Cool dry morning, on our own again so we rambled all over the place, no set plan for walking just followed the paths as they came.

Ash Leaves appearing after flowering.

Beech in Burgh Wood - this is one of the medium sized ones.

It's also in flower - those on the edge of the wood are a few days off.

White Bluebell this time in Burgh Wood.

The hillside is filling with Bluebells.

They always look a treat.

Flowering Currant.

Common Sorrel on the Barrow

Fringe Cups another garden escapee.

Great Crested Grebe sitting lets hope they have some young this year.

Here is my hero of the moment Mother Mallard still with 5 babes.

I am leaning towards this being a moth - it was so tiny - the leaf is a bramble - I hope to get an ID for it.

More Oaks coming in to leaf.

River Yarrow - not seen it this low for a while.

Silver Birch

Silver Leaved Yellow Archangel - this is a garden escapee.

It's done very well to last this long.

She wasn't on the nest this morning, first time we have caught her off the nest since she started sitting.

She was nearby having a quick wash and brush up.

One of the patches of Touch Me Not Balsam in Burgh Wood.

Much paler and a lot more delicate looking than the Himalayan.

Yellow Rattle just showing.

Yellow Water Lily Leaves

Take Care