Thursday 21 August

Lower Burgh again

No mistaking the golden glands on this thistle, one of the easy ones to ID

Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Take Care

Tuesday 21 August

Damp

 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

 Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Dead Mole it's that time of the year - we find quite a few on the paths all are intact, a mystery as to what has happened to them.

Take Care

Tuesday 24 July

Dry

On Oak - Artichoke Gall - Andricus fecundator

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Take Care

Tuesday 27 September

Dry Morning.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bird Pellet - about 2 inches / 5cm in size I know these are studied so I have no doubt someone will be able to tell us who did it?

 Big Lodge 

 Upright Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica

 Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Later I had a walk down the New Road still plenty in flower.

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Enteridium Lycoperdon a slime mold.

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 White Dead Nettle - Lamium album

 Bridge below Sunny Mount

 Sunny Mount Entrance

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Common Knapweed  - Centaurea nigra

 Honeysuckle  - Lonicera periclymenum

 Path through the Rucks

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica

Speckled Wood

Take Care.

Monday 22 August

Dry morning.

Up to the Lower Burgh Meadow & pond

 Bulrush - Typha latifolia

 Gatekeeper

 Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

 Meg

 Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

 Pedunculate Oak - Quercus robur

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

 Red Admiral

 Speckled Wood

Tachinid Fly - Tachina fera

Take Care.

Tuesday 16 August

Raining this morning brightened up later on.

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bittersweet - Solanum dulcamara

 Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Devil's-bit Scabious - Succisa pratensis

 Elder - Sambucus nigra

 Giant Montbretia - Crocosmia masoniorum

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Take Care

Tuesday 26 July

Lovely morning to wander about.

Big Lodge

 Common Fleabane - Pulicaria dysenterica

Haven't the Cygnets grown.

Fungi on the Rucks.

 Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

 Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

Day flying Moth on the Rucks

 Perennial Sow Thistle - Sonchus arvensis

Self Heal - Prunella vulgaris - this is usually ground hugging, yet this one was over a foot tall, you just can't say how plants are going to grow.

Take Care.