Sunday 8 January

A field trip to Mawdsley Moss with the Chorley Natural History Society.

Started as a dry morning but the drizzle set in and finally took over.

 Common Field Speedwell - Veronica persica

 Crow

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Field Pansy - Viola arvensis

 Fungi

 Groundsel - Senecio vulgaris

 Rabbit Scull

 Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

 Sparrowhawk

Whooper Swans

Take Care

Monday 25 July

Dry Morning and we wandered about after first looking around Dry Bones.

 Broad Leaved Dock - Rumex obtusifolius

 Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Elecampane - Inula helenium

 Fat Hen - Chenopodium album

 Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

 Slime Mould - Tubifera ferruginosa all the colour has gone and it is hardly noticeable.

 Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

Take Care.

Tuesday 12 July

Dry morning.

Wild Angelica Bud - Angelica sylvestris

Wild Angelica Leaves - Angelica sylvestris

Wild Angelica - Angelica sylvestris

2 Spot Ladybird

Common Chickweed - Stellaria media

 

Raspberry - Rubus idaeus

Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

Creeping Jenny - Lysimachia nummularia

Smooth Hawk's-beard - Crepis capillaris

Smooth Hawk's-beard - Crepis capillaris

Take Care.

Thursday 14 April

Catch up again, first three in the Yarrow Valley

Welsh Poppy in bud - Meconopsis cambrica

Wood Forgetmenot

On the footpath near the rucks - just one small wound almost like a air pellet shot, no sign of any other wounds.

On to Knot End on Sea - all found on the Sea Wall

Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa

Common Chickweed - Stellaria media

Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

Dames Violet - Hesperis Matronalis

Garden Grape Hyacinth - Muscari armeniacum

Garlic Mustard - Alliaria petiolata

Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum

Rape - Brassica napus

Rape - Brassica napus

Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum

White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

Take Care

Friday 11 March

Mild again.

The field near the Barrow and Pond - this has long been a place of safety for the deer but sadly no longer - all the trees have been cut down, no one is owning up to what is going on and who is doing it.

Frog Spawn

and Frogs in the channel near the deer carving.

Greylag Goose on the Big Lodge.

Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum at Worthington.

Take Care.