Sunday 27 April

Weather still okay, we are being promised a good summer, I have not got my shorts out yet :)

This has been lovely this year, Bird Cherry - Prunus padus

Another patch of Bluebells

 Bush Vetch - Vicia sepium

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

Finally in flower but I was unable to get near due to bramble & nettle, Fringe Cups - Tellima grandiflora

 Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus

 Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus pratensis

Play Area from across the river

 Weigela - Weigela florida

I always think the buds are more attractive than the flower. Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

Thursday 17 May

Damp Morning

 Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

 Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Weigelia - Weigela florida

Take Care

Thursday 10 May

Damp Morning

 Terns on raft

 Weigelia - Weigela florida

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Take Care

Saturday 29 May

Damp again, we had a good look around the lodges.

Not many folk about.

Edwina is keeping these babes very close, all five looking really well.

I am wondering if this family of Canada Geese is the one that has been sitting on the old raft, two babes and they looked well.

We seem to be getting more young this year, although the Great Crested Grebe are having no luck with their nest.

Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga

Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys - getting quite a large spread near the big lodge.

Weigelia - Weigela florida

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Yellow Water Lily - Nuphar lutea - on the Top Lodge.

Look who has taken over the old nest on the Top Lodge Billy & Lucy Swan, I think they have come for a bit of peace, Edward their Dad will not leave them alone.

Take Care.