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

St George's Day Thursday 23 April

A beautiful morning on our country's Saint's Day.

This is also the best day to pick dandelions if your making Dandelion Wine or so I was told by my Gran.

 Big Lodge

Canada Goose still sitting

 

 Male Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas just through

Terns are back - they are now in control of the rafts, seagulls beware.

Take Care

Friday 27 June

Sunny day 

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Dog Vomit Slime Mold

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

 Young Tern on raft

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

Sunday 15 June

Beautiful sights in the Yarrow Valley

 The Canada Geese Family 

 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

 Hemlock Water Dropwort - Oenanthe crocata

 Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium

Path by the Big Lodge

 White Water lily - Nymphaea alba

Young Terns 

Take Care

Friday 6 June

Back to the sunshine

Soon be Blackberry picking, Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

Tern & youngster

The new feature in the village old pump fitted over the trough

Our village is getting some good features to remind us of a time some of us remember

Take Care

Tuesday 3 June

Weather still good

 Big Lodge View

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Mallard still with 11 of her well grown babes

Tern Raft with residents

Take Care

Wednesday 14 August

Dry again with the sun already warming us

 Big Lodge 

 Gatekeeper on Blackberries

Young Tern on the raft, parent sat on the rail keeping an eye on the ducks.

Take Care

Friday 13 July

Rain this morning

 Coot Family

 Hybrid Goose - try spotting this in the flock - easier when you see those feet

 Mallard Ducklings

Terns on Raft

Take Care

Monday 21 May

Dry Morning

 Swan Family

 Both Tern Rafts

 Terns on Raft

Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care