Thursday 10 April

Beautiful morning for our walk

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

 Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea

 Lords & Ladies - Arum maculatum

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

Male & Female flowers of Silver Birch - Betula pendula

Take Care

Saturday 21 April

Rain this morning

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

 White Lipped Snail

 White Lipped Snail

Take Care

Monday 9 May

Dry & Mild

 I wondered why I had taken this photo - then I remembered the Columbine in bud, this is the spot and not a leaf left, strimmed again.

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

 Currant Gall - Neuroterus quercusbaccarum found a lot on the oaks on Primrose Hill.

 Currant Gall - Neuroterus quercusbaccarum they are found on the flowers 

 Currant Gall - Neuroterus quercusbaccarum also on the leaves 

Feeding time.

a very pale Mallard.

Take Care.

Sunday 24 April

Dry again

 Ash - Fraxinus excelsior

Bluebells in Burgh Wood

Canada Geese

 Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

Coot 

 Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris

 Crack Willow - Salix fragilis

Insect on Bluebell

Fly on Holly

 Foxglove Leaves - Digitalis purpurea

 Greater Plantain Leaves - Plantago major

 Hawthorn Buds - Crataegus monogyna

 Hogweed Leaves - Heracleum sphondylium

 Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Ladybird on Oak

 Lesser Burdock Leaves - Arctium minus

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina

 Oak - Quercus

Speckled Wood

Take Care.

Tuesday 25 May

Dry morning, no sunshine it was quite dull.

What a lot of little copy cats :)

Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

Common Sorrel - Rumex acetosa

Common Sorrel Flowers - Rumex acetosa

Scorpion Fly

Remote Sedge - Carex remota

Remote Sedge - Carex remota

Herb Bennet or Wood Avens - Geum urbanum

Take Care.

Tuesday 4 May

Cool dry morning, on our own again so we rambled all over the place, no set plan for walking just followed the paths as they came.

Ash Leaves appearing after flowering.

Beech in Burgh Wood - this is one of the medium sized ones.

It's also in flower - those on the edge of the wood are a few days off.

White Bluebell this time in Burgh Wood.

The hillside is filling with Bluebells.

They always look a treat.

Flowering Currant.

Common Sorrel on the Barrow

Fringe Cups another garden escapee.

Great Crested Grebe sitting lets hope they have some young this year.

Here is my hero of the moment Mother Mallard still with 5 babes.

I am leaning towards this being a moth - it was so tiny - the leaf is a bramble - I hope to get an ID for it.

More Oaks coming in to leaf.

River Yarrow - not seen it this low for a while.

Silver Birch

Silver Leaved Yellow Archangel - this is a garden escapee.

It's done very well to last this long.

She wasn't on the nest this morning, first time we have caught her off the nest since she started sitting.

She was nearby having a quick wash and brush up.

One of the patches of Touch Me Not Balsam in Burgh Wood.

Much paler and a lot more delicate looking than the Himalayan.

Yellow Rattle just showing.

Yellow Water Lily Leaves

Take Care