Sunday 15 March

Overcast & cool

Big Lodge

Car Park

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera always flowers just ahead of the Blackthorn

Finally found some frog spawn

Won't be long before the Terns return

One of last year'sTeasel - Dipsacus fullonum

This year's Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum just showing

Take Care

Monday 15 September

Wonderful Morning

 Top end of Big Lodge

 Chaffinch

 Mikki & Griff

 Moorhen

 Nuthatch

 Robin

 Phantom rubbish spreader has been about

 Silver Birch - Betula pendula

Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Take Care

Sunday 30 March

Flowers & Trees from Sunday

Blue Anemone - Anemone apennina

Bugle - Ajuga reptans

Colt's-foot - Tussilago farfara

Common Dog Voilet - Viola riviniana

Cowslip - Primula veris

Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Ivy - Hedera helix

Ramsons - Allium ursinum

Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Wavy Bitter-cress - Cardamine flexuosa

Take Care

Saturday 22 March

Some flowers we found on the Lower Burgh plus Frog Spawn and the Elfcup.

We also found three of the work piles of vegetation burned to varying degrees, this is getting to be a habit and I think it's time to stop leaving these piles to rot as small animals use them over winter - the yobs come along and set fire to them not caring what happens to the wildlife

Just one of the piles that we found burned out.

 Cowslip - Primula veris

 Frog Spawn

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

 Scarlet Elfcup

Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Take Care

Wednesday 10 July

Lovely morning on the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

 Sphaerophoria the experts can't get it any nearer from a photo but say it's female. To me it's a hoverfly.

 Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

 Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

 Skipper

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Burnet Moth on Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Take Care

Saturday 22 September

Damp again but we stayed dry.

 Big Lodge

 I loved the misty view over the Big lodge

 Butterfly-bush - Buddleja davidii

 Corn-cockle - Agrostemma githago - only noticed the Green Shieldbug Nymph when I was looking at the photos later on, it's the 2nd one we found recently.

Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Take Care.

Wednesday 18 April

Rain this morning - we made our way to the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Apple - Malus sp.

 Colt's-foot - Tussilago farfara

 Colt's-foot Clock - Tussilago farfara

 Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris

 Cowslip - Primula veris

 Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

 Gorse - Ulex europaeus

Mullein - Verbascum - probably Great Mullein

 Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea

 Ground Ivy - Glechoma hederacea

 Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

Take Care