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

Friday 15 October

Dry again - we had a walk up to the Lower Burgh Meadow.

Swans waiting for some one to come along with breakfast.

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare still in flower on the lower burgh.

Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca - found this one plant on the Rucks.

Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca - I have to admit I picked this one and enjoyed eating it.

Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca - it was still flowering.

Wilson's Honeysuckle - Lonicera nitida - this photo does not do the violet coloured berries justice.

Take Care.

Wednesday 30 June

Up to the Lower Burgh Meadow today, it was dry and the sun made it out in the end.

Bee Orchid - Ophrys apifera

Branched Bur-reed - Sparganium erectum

Common Sedge - Carex nigra

Common Toadflax - Linaria vulgaris

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Mallard & Babes

Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria

Musk Mallow - Malva moschata

Narrow Leaved Water Plantain - Alisma lanceolata

Water Plantain - Alisma plantago-aquatica

Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis

Swan Family

Rosebay Willowherb - Chamerion angustifolium

Tall Melilot - Melilotus altissima

Viper's Bugloss - Echium vulgare

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia