Sunday 10 May

Damp cool morning

Big Lodge View

Money Tree

 Clover - Trifolium

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

Coot

Cygnets

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Field Horsetail - Equisetum arvense

Mucky Mallard our Griff

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Mandarin Drake

Swan Family

Take Care

Friday 8 May

Dry morning the sort you could walk for hours

Big Lodge View

Some in flower on the Rucks Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Harry Heron waiting for Breakfast on the Top Lodge

 

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Take Care

Friday 2 May

Nice morning lots of photos but I must catch up with my other work.

 Alder Fly - Sialis lutaria

 Beech - Fagus sylvatica

 Bumblebee

Still not been strimmed, Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Take Care

Wednesday 30 April

Nice morning

 Apple - Malus

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Common Water-crowfoot - Ranunculus aquatilis

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

One of the habitat piles that has been set on fire - I think this part of the wood has to adopt the name of Funeral Pyre Wood

 Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Still 13 babes

Meg Homeward Bound

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Monday 1 April

Just above freezing and dry

This is one of the largest Ash Trees in the wood well over 60 feet tall - Fraxinus excelsior

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara about 3 weeks behind

Primrose - Primula vulgaris only two plants found this year - it is so sad as this is Primrose Hill

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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

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Friday 11 May

Damp Morning

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Looks like the swans are having a bit of a domestic, there are 4 cygnets around somewhere.

 Leg ring on a male swan that has arrived with a female, he came out of the water with an attitude -

 Billy Swan will have a struggle to shift this one if he doesn't want to go

He was ringed as an adult on 3 sisters at Wigan in 2008 info from Wes Halton

Take Care

Thursday 3 May

Dry Morning

 Dock Beetle Eggs

 The culprit Green Dock Beetle

 there are lots on the docks at the moment

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

Take Care