Wednesday 13 May

Excellent walking morning

 Apple - Malus

 Big Lodge

 Sparrowhawk wing - all that was left found on the rucks, it's a small hawk but I wonder what happened to it?

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

 Part of the Old Cottages

 Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

 Hartstongue - Asplenium scolopendrium

 Male Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina 

 Slime Mould - Lycogala

 Spiraea sp.

 Marker Stone Mystery

 Tern

 Weigela - Weigela florida

 Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care

Saturday 25 October

Male Sparrowhawk out back scaring the local birds - they are all hiding, he mustn't have had his breakfast.

He is always in the area as we have plenty of starlings, thankfully he only takes to feed himself and his family.

Take Care

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