Saturday 16 May

Good Morning for our walk

Fisherman on the Big Lodge

 Gate to Primrose Hill

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pink Box in the Yarrow

 Rape - Brassica napus

 Swan Family

 Swan Family

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Young Bullock

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Friday 8 May

Dry morning the sort you could walk for hours

Big Lodge View

Some in flower on the Rucks Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Harry Heron waiting for Breakfast on the Top Lodge

 

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

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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

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Wednesday 2 April

All over the valley new life is appearing

 7 Spot Ladybird

Our native Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Bumblebee searching for the right place to make her nest 

 Common Dog Voilet - Viola riviniana

 No scent with this one

 Garden Grape Hyacinth - Muscari armeniacum they get everywhere :)

 Larch - Larix note the odd one out the female flower that we see later as the cone

Lords & Ladies - Arum maculatum we don't get many patches with the spotted leaves

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

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Tuesday 21 May

Damp Morning at Knott End

Shelduck

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 This is to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain

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