Wednesday 4 June

What a spell of good weather we are having

Bumble Bee on Comfrey

Butterbur - Petasites hybridus

Common Comfrey - Symphytum officinale

Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Silver-ground Carpet - Xanthorhoe montanata

Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care

Friday 30 May

A glorious walk 

Female Common Blue Damselfly

 White Clover - Trifolium repens

 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Yorkshire Fog - Holcus lanatus

Take Care

Tuesday 3 July

Damp morning

 Hemp Agrimony - Eupatorium cannabinum

 Marsh Woundwort - Stachys palustris

 Marsh Woundwort - Stachys palustris

Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care

Wednesday 6 June

Damp Morning on the Lower Burgh Meadow

Could not resist the Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care

Monday 21 May

Dry Morning

 Swan Family

 Both Tern Rafts

 Terns on Raft

Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care

Friday 27 May

Dry Morning.

I found this in my back garden among the Red Clover a 14 Spot Ladybird - Propylea 14-punctata.

It had to come for a photo and then back to keeping the greenfly down.

14 Spot Ladybird - Propylea 14-punctata

 Broad Leaved Willowherb - Epilobium montanum

 Common Mallow - Malva Sylvestris growing in a nick on the pavement near home.

 Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

 Crane Fly this one is a male.

 Cuckooflower -  Cardamine pratensis

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Fox-and-cubs - Pilosella aurantiaca another that has crept onto the pavement.

 Oriental Poppy - Papaver pseudoorientale

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 Prickley Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper

 Red Valerian - Centranthus ruber

 

Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Take Care.

Wednesday 25 May

Dry Morning - up to the Lower Burgh Meadow.

Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Canada Geese coming in to land.

 Common Figwort Leaves - Scrophularia nodosa var. bobartii

Common Twayblade - Neottia ovata

Figwort weevil - Cionus scrophulariae

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys

Hoary Ragwort Leaves -  Senecio erucifolius

Hogweed Leaves - Heracleum sphondylium

 Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

 Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

 Ragged Robin - Lychnis flos-cuculi

Mum & Babes

 Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata

 Water Dock - Rumex hydrolapathum

 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor

Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

I took the rest of the photos around the back garden, after dinner.

 Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

 Corncockle

 Corncockle among the clover

 Meet the Sparrows

 Quite a few this year

 They are nesting in the hedge

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella

 Wolf Spider With her egg sac - there are lots in the garden.

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Another Blue Tit Nest

Take Care.