Wednesday 12 June

Raining this morning

We did the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Can you imagine how I felt when I saw this beautiful rose - what a find

 Good job it's not April 1 - 

 When I saw the wire I was expecting someone jumping out saying this is Candid Camera.

 Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Silverweed - Potentilla anserina

Take Care

Sunday 24 June

Raining

 Common Toadflax - Linaria vulgaris

 Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

 Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

 Southern Marsh Orchid - Dactylorhiza praetermissa

 Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

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.

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.

Wednesday 24 June

Six Spot Burnet

Mallard Ducklings

Meadow Vetchling

Oxeye Daisy

Rough Hawkbit