Wednesday 30 April

Nice morning

 Apple - Malus

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Common Water-crowfoot - Ranunculus aquatilis

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

One of the habitat piles that has been set on fire - I think this part of the wood has to adopt the name of Funeral Pyre Wood

 Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Still 13 babes

Meg Homeward Bound

Take Care

Wednesday 13 June

Dry Morning

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Double Flowered Aquiligia - Nora Barlow

 Yellow Water Lily - Nuphar lutea

Cormorant

Take Care

Friday 11 May

Damp Morning

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

 Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

 Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Looks like the swans are having a bit of a domestic, there are 4 cygnets around somewhere.

 Leg ring on a male swan that has arrived with a female, he came out of the water with an attitude -

 Billy Swan will have a struggle to shift this one if he doesn't want to go

He was ringed as an adult on 3 sisters at Wigan in 2008 info from Wes Halton

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.

Wednesday 16 June

Sunny morning.

Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Skipper

Apple Mint - Mentha x villosa

Burnet Moth

Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Fat-hen - Chenopodium album

Fungi with my mobile phone for scale.

It was on Sycamore

Ground Elder - Aegopodium podagraria

Hairy Sedge - Carex hirta

Hedge Mustard - Sisymbrium officinale

Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium

Speckled Wood

Swan & 5 cygnets

Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

Take Care.