Friday 10 August

Dry Morning

 Fungi

 Hoeverfly

Montbretia

Take Care

Monday 22 August

Dry morning.

Up to the Lower Burgh Meadow & pond

 Bulrush - Typha latifolia

 Gatekeeper

 Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

 Meg

 Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

 Pedunculate Oak - Quercus robur

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

 Red Admiral

 Speckled Wood

Tachinid Fly - Tachina fera

Take Care.

Tuesday 16 August

Raining this morning brightened up later on.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Elder - Sambucus nigra

 Giant Montbretia - Crocosmia masoniorum

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Take Care

Wednesday 29 September

Rain this morning.

Dotted Loosestrife - Lysimachia puntacta

One of the ways onto the park - this is the area we call the rucks.

Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

Hazel - Coryluss avellana lambs tails already forming for next years nuts, not that we ever get any, those grey squirrels take them when they are still green.

Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora on the rucks.

Snowberry - Symphoricarpos albus

Take Care.

Sunday 22 August

Dry sunny morning - we went up on  to the Lower Burgh Meadow after we had been to the big lodge.

Feeding time.

Young Swans are first to the trough.

Hazel Nut - Coryluss avellana

Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

Found in the hedgerow it must be from the nearby kennels there is plenty around there.

Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

This is a little bit of a rarity these days, it seems to be losing the battle with the local fishermen - they clear patches of reeds to fish and this suffers. 

Narrow Leaved Water Plantain - Alisma lanceolata

Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

Top Lodge Reed Beds.

View across Top Lodge.

Take Care.

Wednesday 26 August

We wandered all over the place today - it was a damp morning.

You can just make out the very bruised apple in the centre of the photo, this is growing on the rucks. I would guess someone threw a stump away and this is the result, it has a few more apples on it, we did manage to get one last year - it was average tasting.

Canadian Goldenrod - a garden escapee or throw out.
Quite a large patch, so it likes the area.

Common Fleabane

Corn Mint

A very damp Perennial Sow Thistle.

Another throw out Giant Montbretia.

Guelder Rose - It is misleadingly called European Cranberry-bush (it is not a cranberry).
The fruit has a very acidic taste, not recommended as it is mildly toxic, and can cause vomiting or diarrhea but the birds like it so a good one for the garden.

Still waiting for those Hazel Nuts.

But look whats already appearing on the Hazel - male catkins or lambs tails.

Missed the Japanese Rose flowering - another throw out.

Meadow Vetchling in bud

and seed.

Norway Maple

with it's seeds or keys - I picked a few of these up, it was only when I got home and looked at them I found that only this one had seeds - I wonder if the squirrels also like these as there was no sign of entry until I checked them - they had been bent and the seeds removed, just like I was going to do later. So hopefully I got two good seeds.

Never seen the like of it, some one beat me to them.