Friday 27 June

Sunny day 

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Dog Vomit Slime Mold

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

 Young Tern on raft

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

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 6 March

Mild. 

Only a few photos today

 one of the new nestboxes that has been put up in Burgh Wood, these are made by the children during the holidays. Most are excellent.

 Opposite Leaved Golden-Saxifrage - Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

 This is the  ancient Beech that was felled a few weeks ago it already had a lot of old initials carved into it most unreadable, this is fresh, I often wonder which tree I carved mine into when I was around ten years old I know the area but could I find the tree? I doubt it as I remember climbing on to the first branch, happy days.

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

Sunday 3 November

We did the Lower Burgh this morning only the Red Clover caught our eye

Red Clover - Trifolium pratense

All the rest from round the lodges

 Field Rose - Rosa arvensis

Plenty of Fungi about

Lots of Mallards

 Shepherd's Purse - Capsella bursa-pastoris

Top Lodge View

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care

Saturday 27 April

Dry day

 Tawny Mining Bee - tiny bee that I had to chase to get a photo, beautiful colour.

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus, hard to believe what a few warm sunny days can do.

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Monday 11 February

Trying to snow this morning - did not do much soon stopped.

Yellow Iris 

Goat Willow 

Euonymus fortunei 

Cotoneaster still with berries

Take Care

Sunday 16 September

Herons on Top Lodge

 European Pear Rust - Gymnosporangium sabinae

 European Pear Rust - Gymnosporangium sabinae

Seed pod of the Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus 

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Monday 11 July

On our own so we ambled about - it was dry and warm in the valley.

Bramble - Rubus fruticosus

Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi

Tutsan - Hypericum androsaemum

 Not a pretty sight but nature has to be seen in all it's facets - we think a crow...

Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia

 Speckled Wood a bit worn - by the old cottage ruins at Dry Bones.

Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium

Lesser Burdock - Arctium minus

 Meadow Brown lots about on Primrose Hill.

Figwort Sawfly - Tenthredo scrophulariae

Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus pedunculatus

Red Bartsia - Odontites verna

Spear Thistle - Circium vulgare

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Mugwort in Bud - Artemisia vulgaris

Yellow Iris Seed Pods - Iris pseudacorus

Take Care.