Wednesday 13 May

Excellent walking morning

 Apple - Malus

 Big Lodge

 Sparrowhawk wing - all that was left found on the rucks, it's a small hawk but I wonder what happened to it?

 Burnet Rose - Rosa spinosissima

 Common Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

 Part of the Old Cottages

 Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

 Hartstongue - Asplenium scolopendrium

 Male Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas

 Moschatel - Adoxa moschatellina 

 Slime Mould - Lycogala

 Spiraea sp.

 Marker Stone Mystery

 Tern

 Weigela - Weigela florida

 Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care

Thursday 30 April

Good Morning, weather damp

 Broad Leaved Dock - Rumex obtusifolius

 Meadow Buttercup - Ranunculus acris

  Meadow Buttercup - Ranunculus acris

 Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Dinner out at the Black Horse at Limbrick
An old pub that was first licensed in 1577 in the reign of Elizabeth I

 Black Horse at Limbrick

We tried the Ruddles Best Ale, it was excellent.
The meal was good.

Take Care

Monday 16 March

Cool & Dull

 Canada Geese

Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 

 Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

 Frog Spawn

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

 Charlie Robin collecting nesting material

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

 

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care

Tuesday 29 April

The weather was forecast fog and it was misty but soon burned off.

Misty view of the Big Lodge

 Bugle - Ajuga reptans looking wonderful 

Garden Snail lost it's way as it is sat on one of the lodge fence posts

Woodruff - Galium odoratum now in full flower - given the chance this is a good ground covering plant - perhaps too good in some places.

Take Care

Sunday 13 May

Dry Morning

 Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Rose Rust - Phragmidium

 Rose Rust - Phragmidium

Our swans have four babies

A couple of new swans on the main lodge

 Tormentil - Potentilla erecta

 Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care

Tuesday 3 April

Dry 

 Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

 Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

 Dotted Loosestrife - Lysimachia puntacta

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

Take Care.