Wednesday 13 August

The clouds threatened on the Lower Burgh this morning but we stayed dry, had a good walk round and took a few photos.

 We are almost on the model aircraft runway looking toward Charnock Richard.

The Common Knapweed - Centaurea nigra has made a good show all over the valley.

Take Care

Tuesday 1 July

Glorious July

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra this is all over my back garden.

 Currant Gall on Oak

 Can you see the tiny green bug not got an ID yet only spotted it when I was editing my photos, looks like a very tiny cricket

 This is to commemorate all the lives lost in war - it is in the village Memorial Gardens

The scent told us the Mock-orange - Philadelphus coronarius was in flower

Take Care

Friday 3 August

Dry morning

This is the rayed form of Common Knapweed   - Centaurea nigra

 Evening Primrose - Oenothera

 Gypsywort - Lycopus europaeus

Footpath marker

Take Care

Saturday 21 July

Damp

 Butterfly-bush - Buddleja davidii

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Great Crested Grebe

 Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria

 Red Admiral

 Red Admiral

 Red Admiral

 Red Admiral

 Small Tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell

Take Care

Thursday 12 July

Damp

 Big Lodge view of both Tern Rafts

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Perennial Cornflower - Centaurea montana

Cygnets are almost full grown

Take Care

Sunday 8 July

Dry

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Creeping Thistle - Circium arvense

 Himalayan Balsam - Impatiens glandulifera

 Swan Family

Timothy - Phleum pratense

Take Care

Saturday 7 July

Dry

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina

 Mock-orange - Philadelphus coronarius

 Raspberry - Rubus idaeus

Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Take Care

Wednesday 30 November

Dry Morning

 Swan Family

 Windfall Apples

 Broom - Cytisus scoparius

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Gorse - Ulex europaeus

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

Take Care.

Friday 21 October

Damp this morning.

 The new Hide Screen - three feeding stations in view.

 Juvenile Swan.

Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

Tuesday 27 September

Dry Morning.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bird Pellet - about 2 inches / 5cm in size I know these are studied so I have no doubt someone will be able to tell us who did it?

 Big Lodge 

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

 Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Later I had a walk down the New Road still plenty in flower.

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Enteridium Lycoperdon a slime mold.

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Bridge below Sunny Mount

 Sunny Mount Entrance

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Honeysuckle  - Lonicera periclymenum

 Path through the Rucks

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

Speckled Wood

Take Care.