Sunday 7 September

Up to the Lower Burgh this morning - the spider is a garden spider it was the webs that stood out in the sunlight with the morning dew on them

This caterpillar was in the garden at home, I got it ID, it will become a moth, I think it looks prettier as a caterpillar

Caterpillar - Bright-line Brown-eye

Take Care

Sunday 8 June

Another sunny morning that had all sorts of goodies out for us to look at.

I had to put three photos up of this tiny (less than an inch across) day flying moth, I counted over 10 fluttering about on the rucks - I had never seen them before but perhaps I just did not notice them, any way a first sighting for me.

I loved the colour and the white tinge to the wing edge

 Chimney Sweep -  Odezia atrata

 Chimney Sweep -  Odezia atrata

 Chimney Sweep -  Odezia atrata

 Common Bistort  - Persicaria bistorta

 Currant Gall - Neuroterus quercusbaccarum another of the galls that the oak is host to.

Sputnik Spider - Paidiscura pallens found it on the same oak tree we found the weird spider egg sac last year.

I am still waiting for an ID for this snail - looked like a Rams Horn, but not quite right.

Take Care

Wednesday 4 September

Dry almost sunny morning

 I am an offcomer as they say round here, meaning I wasn't born in the village, born about 14 miles away and love my home town, seen many beautiful sunrises (possibly more than most) loads of  views from all over the country, yet when we came to live here this view stunned me. No matter how many times I see it I have to tell myself it's real and on my doorstep. Money can't buy it and no one can take it from me, we can all share it.

 Thought this was a strange looking ladybird larvae, not one of our native ones but the Harlequin Ladybird not native but introduced and seems to be building up in number.

 One big slug at least 6 inches in length

 Baby spiders in a web type nursery

The winged seeds of Wild Angelica - Angelica sylvestris

Take Care

Saturday 3 August

Beautiful Morning

 View of the Big Lodge

 Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium

 Myathropa florea Hoverfly

 Paidiscura pallens Spider egg sac recently hatched

 Red Bartsia - Odontites vernus

Spangle Galls & Inch Worm

Take Care

Wednesday 28 March

 Forget Me Not - Myosotis at home in the back garden

 Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Wolf Spider also in the garden

Take Care

Saturday 2 July

Sunny morning

 Enchanter's Nightshade - Circaea lutetiana

 Burgh Wood

 Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Seven Spot Ladybird

 Spider's Nest

 Greater Plantain - Plantago major

Wood Dock - Rumex sanguineus

Take Care.

Monday 28 June

Sunshine again.

Marsh Woundwort - Stachys palustris

Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

Spider's Nursery - lots about at the moment.

Take Care.

Wednesday 23 June

Up onto the Burgh this morning, we usually have a walk up there when we are on our own.

I have been searching for the Bee Orchid on Lower Burgh for a good while and today we found it (twice), the first was on it's own we checked all round it and did not find any more but we will check again, the second area we found 3 plants within 6 feet of each other, one of them had been nibbled by something possibly a slug.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Burnet Moth

Common Knapweed - Centaurea nigra

Creeping Jenny - Lysimachia nummularia this is along side of the railway sidings.

Dames Violet - Hesperis Matronalis

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

 Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

Hieracium vagum

Large Bindweed - Calystegia silvatica

Marsh Bedstraw - Galium palustre

Nipplewort - Lapsana communis

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Peached-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia - all garden escapees.

Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Rough Hawkbit - Leontodon hispidus

Self Heal - Prunella vulgaris

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Spider's Web

Edwina with 4 Cygnets - we were all wondering what had happened to the missing one - what could have taken it?

When out of the reeds Edward appeared with the other cygnet, it had up set a few people thinking one had been taken, they all seem fit & healthy so let's hope they all make it.

Take Care.