Tuesday 8 April

Another good morning

 Butterbur - Petasites hybridus leaves just showing

 King Alfred's Cakes

 King Alfred's Cakes Think he burnt these :)

Meg on the hunt

Wild Garlic, Ramsons - Allium ursinum some tasty leaves for the salad

Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus

Take Care

Wednesday 24 April

Dry & Mild

 Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

 Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

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

Sunday 8 April part one

It was a damp morning - Plants first

 Great Horsetail - Equisetum telmateia

 Lord & Ladies  - Arum maculatum

 Opposite Leaved Golden-Saxifrage - Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

 Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus

 Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

 Wood Sorrel - Oxalis acetosella

Wood Sorrel - Oxalis acetosella

Take Care

Sunday 1 April

Colder this morning

 Ash - Fraxinus excelsior

 Cherry Laurel - Prunus laurocerasus

 Cotoneaster - Cotoneaster horizontalis

 Fungi

 Horse Chestnut Sapling - Aesculus hippocastanum

 Hoverfly

 Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Meg

 Meg in the river

 Sycamore

 Wood Pigeon

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

Take Care

Wednesday 4 May

Dry and a beautiful morning.

 Columbine Buds - Aquilegia vulgaris 

 Columbine Buds - Aquilegia vulgaris the strimmer men are about so this plant is doomed again. 

Another ringed Coot - left leg

right leg - this bird was ringed at Southport Marine Lake last winter.

 Holly - Ilex aquifolium

 Holly - Ilex aquifolium

 Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

 Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

 Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

Lucy & Blue SLU swans

 Sycamore - Acer vilosa

 Thyme Leaved Speedwell - Veronica serpyllifolia

 Wood Melick - Melica uniflora

Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra

Take Care.

Sunday 3 April

Mild & dry, we had a good walk.

Just through Bush Vetch leaves - Vicia sepium

Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Mahonia aquilifolium

Sycamore Flowers just the male flowers open - Acer vilosa

The new fence we can just manage to walk by the side of it.

This is what really annoys me - the workmen who did the job could not be bothered to take their rubbish with them, it is dangerous for us and animals.

They would not get any more work if I had my way.

Marsh Marigold at the top of Spring Wood.

Take Care.