Saturday 8 June

Back on the beach Meg is in hunting mood

 This is the reason the Pheasant has been strutting about tormenting her, he has a mate that we see occasionally.

Wish he would stroll some where else - we have a job on our hands when Meg sees him.

Take Care.

Thursday 21 February

Just on freezing today felt cold due to the wind.

The Pheasant gave me the run around this morning :)

Take Care

Tuesday 20 March

Dry again

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Field Vole also known as a Short Tailed Vole

 not a mark on it

 Pheasant

Primrose - Primula vulgaris

Take Care

Friday 30 September

Hot & Dry at Knott End.

 I enjoyed watching this Black Headed Gull on the beach finding tasty morsels.

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum seem to have come back to life. 

 We passed this man on the sea wall - no he's not making sandcastles, he's digging for lug worms.

 Drift Wood a lovely piece but too big & heavy to carry far.

 One of the horse's in the field.

 Jet Ski racing.

 Lapwing - the colours are lovely never noticed this before.

Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium 

 Pheasant in moult

Sea Mayweed - tripleurospermum maritimum with a small tortoiseshell on it. 

 The tide was high today.

Wild Radish - Raphanus raphanistrum

Take Care.

Sunday 4 April

Lovely dry morning, we were on our own again.

Headed up through Spring Wood

Look at the balsam seedlings, there are more than ever this year.

Bashing does not work if it's left too late, needs to be done before they reach 18 inches tall.

Once they get beyond that I believe bashing does more harm than good.

Sycamore always one of the first to green up.

Silver Birch Catkin.

This had me fooled - I saw it from across the gully, we made our way to it and yes it's forsythia and no it's not growing yet, it is a cutting it may root we left it to mother nature.

We think these are Pheasant feathers - possible fox kill not a lot left.

I brought a piece of this bitter-cress home to check if it was wavy or hairy, this photo is magnified 60 times.

I opened the flower up to see the stamens only 4 so it's Hairy Bitter-cress - this photo is 10 times magnification.

Take Care.

Tuesday 7 April

Dry & mild, we headed down to the Sunny Brow Bridge, we could see a large bird on the path and as we drew near realized it was a pheasant that had lost his tail.

The man on the bridge did not seem to see the bird, we hung back with the dog.

It did the usual pheasant thing and tried to act as though we might not see it, finally it walked under the fence wire and as we got there it saw sense and flew off.
Wood Anemone open every where.

The young swan is still on the big lodge, he is quite strong and seems to have been practising his landings - watched him and he was very graceful.

Large Cabbage White butterfly in the greenhouse one of the many from last years nasturtiums.