Tuesday 12 May

Damp morning - lots to see

 Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Coal Tit

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

 Oak - Quercus

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

 Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Spiraea sp.

 St Mark's Fly

 Swan & Cygnets

 Weevil on Wych Elm

 Weir & Fish Ladder

 Wild Cherry - Prunus avium

 Wood Sedge - Carex sylvatica

 Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana

Yorkshire Fog - Holcus lanatus

Take Care

Tuesday 5 May

Good Morning

 Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris

 Big Lodge Footpath

 Mandarin

 Mandarin joins the food gang

Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

Take Care

Tuesday 13 January

Damp, Cool Morning

 Can't resist the sunrise over the lodge

Tern Rafts waiting for their residents to return - the gulls and other birds make good use of it during the rest of the year

 

Goosanders - males out numbering the females, they seem to avoid all human activity, especially me and the camera.

River Yarrow

 

Just peeping through, Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Hazel - Corylus avellana, just the male catkins no sign of the female flowers yet.

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

Spotted Dead Nettle - Lamium maculatum

Take Care

Saturday 3 May

Another good day, lot's of photos

Apple - Malus

This is in the old cottage garden plenty on this year but they are cooking apples

 Canada geese with 4 babes

 Ramsons (wild garlic) & Bluebells

 Highclere Holly - Ilex aquifolium x perado = I. x altaclerensis

Another from the old cottage garden, Japanese Quince - Chaenomeles japonica

And another Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

 Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Weevil of some kind.

Plenty of Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra along side of the path to the weir

Take Care