Saturday 17 May

Yarrow Valley on a beautiful day

 Our single Cygnet is looking well, Billy & Edwina are proud parents taking excellent care of him/her :)

Never far away from mum

keeping close and safe

 Common Bistort  - Persicaria bistorta

 Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care

Sunday 20 April

This is how I remember the weather being as a youngster always good, I know it wasn't but we never seemed to be indoors, Happy Days we are still having happy days but it's a different type of happiness - I suppose it's contentment, right that's enough we are verging on maudlin :)

Looking down to the Big Lodge

Mallard still has 4 babes

Managed a better photo of the town hall clock or Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina 

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care

Tuesday 28 May

Dry Morning

 Coot Family now only 4 chicks

 Pike found by Meg who couldn't resist the odour (it was humming) she rolled on it.

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care

Monday 22 April

Dry morning

A walk on the Lower Burgh Meadow

Cherry Laurel - Prunus laurocerasus

 Goat Willow - Salix caprea

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Did our weekly shop and could not resist these two rascals, Arnold had to stop me having a go :)

Watch with Mother - remember the Tortoise called Slowcoach who visited Bill & Ben - 

Take Care

Sunday 10 June

Damp again

Dippers 2nd Brood

 7 Spot Ladybird

 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

 Our four Cygnets they grow like weeds

 Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

 Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus

 Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Take Care

Monday 23 April

St George's Day

Dry morning 

White Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

A shady glade full of Bugle - Ajuga reptans

 Butterbur - Petasites hybridus

 Garlic Mustard - Alliaria petiolata

 Greater Plantain - Plantago major

 This Cyril the Squirrel is getting very brave - I sent the dog after it so that it does not get too sure of its self.

 Marsh Marigold - Caltha palustris

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care

Sunday 22 April part two

Flowers 

 Clematis in the garden

 Common Dog Violet - Viola riviniana showing the pale stout notched spur

 Common Dog Violet - Viola riviniana showing the pointed sepals

 Dandelion - Taraxacum in the garden

 Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

 Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Barren Strawberry - Potentilla sterilis

Take Care

Friday 11 November

Dry Morning 

 Cormorant still in residence

 Lots of fungi about

Found most of these near the rucks

 Heron on Top Lodge

 This is a relic from the old industrial past of the area a steel cable - I think they were used on the lifting and pulling gear in the mine shafts.

 Taken from the river looking toward the new bird feeding area - 

 Swans in flight

Found this little bit of colour, Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata 

Take Care