Monday 11 July

On our own so we ambled about - it was dry and warm in the valley.

Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

Tutsan - Hypericum androsaemum

 Not a pretty sight but nature has to be seen in all it's facets - we think a crow...

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

 Speckled Wood a bit worn - by the old cottage ruins at Dry Bones.

Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Meadow Brown lots about on Primrose Hill.

Figwort Sawfly - Tenthredo scrophulariae

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Mugwort in Bud - Artemisia vulgaris

Yellow Iris Seed Pods - Iris pseudacorus

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.

Wednesday 29 June

Dry morning for our walk over the Lower Burgh Meadow, it was alive with colour.

Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera  - Managed to find another plant but the one with buds on has vanished completely, hope it has just been eaten by slugs.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Common Poppy - Papaver rhoeas

Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Not really a fly person but these just made me look twice - all sun bathing in the same direction and angle.

Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

Perforate St John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Six Spot Burnet Moth

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

Take Care

Wednesday 25 May

Dry Morning - up to the Lower Burgh Meadow.

Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Canada Geese coming in to land.

 Common Figwort Leaves - Scrophularia nodosa var. bobartii

Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Figwort weevil - Cionus scrophulariae

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

Hoary Ragwort Leaves -  Senecio erucifolius

Hogweed Leaves - Heracleum sphondylium

 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

Mum & Babes

 Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

 Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

I took the rest of the photos around the back garden, after dinner.

 Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

 Corncockle

 Corncockle among the clover

 Meet the Sparrows

 Quite a few this year

 They are nesting in the hedge

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Wolf Spider With her egg sac - there are lots in the garden.

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Another Blue Tit Nest

Take Care.