Sunday 1 September

Dry morning

 Top Lodge now almost drained, the Heron was on the top left, still hunting, not seen any of the winter visitors yet.

  Redshank - Persicaria maculosa use to see this all over the place, even in the nicks of the footpaths when I was younger.

This is part of the path all round the big lodge.

The swans are well rested, no young to worry about and now well fed ready for the winter and hopefully a successful brood of young next year.

Take Care

Tuesday 2 August

Dry Morning - good walk.

Pale Persicaria - Persicaria lapathifolia

Take Care

Tuesday 5 October

Dry Morning.

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris - Strimmed again, seems we are never to see what the flower colour is.

Hieracium vagum seed heads - one of our most common Hawkweeds.

Ivy Buds - Hedera helix

Pale Persicaria - Persicaria lapathifolia

Fungi

Red Campion - Silene dioica

Red Campion - Silene dioica

Shaggy Ink Cap at the channel end of lodge.

Then another group near the Small Lodge, like the previous one these have been strimmed.

Billy & Lucy

Look whose arrived, Edwina.

She is still chasing Lucy.

It's hard to take in that the youngsters of previous years are seen as seen as intruders, yet we see them in bigger groups appearing to tolerate one another.

A willow structure.

Take Care.