Saturday 15 October

Dry Morning

Buzzard watching us in Spring Wood.

The weir & fish ladder - the fish are still leaping

deafening when it's like this - 

Take Care.

Friday 14 October

Dry this morning.

Harry Heron was on the Top Lodge again.

So was the Snipe, probably more about but they blend in so well.

Take Care.

Thursday 13 October

Damp morning.

 Charlie Robin was waiting for us 

Patience is a virtue - this cat has plenty.

Take Care.

Monday 10 October

Damp this morning so I did not get the camera out a lot.

 Daisy - Bellis perennis - Plenty in flower, we tend to walk past them, well I do as I am always on the look out for the unusual. 

As you can see it was one of the rare days that I was at home with very little to do, so I was playing with the photos.

Take Care.

Sunday 9 October

Rained most of the night and it was a very damp morning.

 The Yarrow was swollen 

 Look whose back Billy Swan, he is back to his old ways Lucy & the two youngsters are not welcome and he is keeping them at bay.

 Marsh Woundwort - Stachys palustris

A fungi that we call King Alfred's Cakes - it does look like it has been burned doesn't it.

Take Care.

Saturday 8 October

Damp morning we met up with Sue & the tribe plus one

 Toots was still for a moment so I managed a photo of the will o'th wisp.

 Oh no Billy says what with Toots bossing me now I've got Sally.

And here she is Will o'th wisp number 2 Sally - Sue's son's dog she's a collie x springer spaniel so a real live wire.

 Dolly saying did some one say sausages?

Teddy always the gentleman.

Take Care.

Wednesday 5 October

Dry this morning we headed down to the lodges and found

 the Heron who we always call Harry - it's probably not the same one each time but the name has stuck.

 Just to show he does move he turned round for us. I have just noticed that there are two birds lurking in the reeds, could be the elusive snipes?

 Holly - Ilex aquifolium

We went up onto the Lower Burgh Meadow 

 Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

 Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

 Zigzag Clover - Trifolium medium

Broad Leaved Helleborine - Epipactus helleborine gone over before I finally found it near the area of the new pond - there were more but at least one has survived the work.

Take Care.

Sunday 2 October

Mixed weather today, a lot cooler and a few showers.

 Rhododendron - Rhododendron ponticum making a stronger than ever come back in the area that the roots were pulled up and burned last year, what was left behind is looking very healthy.

A walk through Burgh Wood 

 More Fungi

Take Care.

Saturday 1 October

It's going to be another hot day, so we got out early and what there was of the cool morning.

 Sunrise at Knott End

 Two Swans coming in for breakfast.

 Little Egrets feeding on the beach at first glance we thought they were the swans we had seen earlier.

 Common Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea

Russian Vine - Fallopia baldschuanica

Take Care.

Friday 30 September

Hot & Dry at Knott End.

 I enjoyed watching this Black Headed Gull on the beach finding tasty morsels.

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum seem to have come back to life. 

 We passed this man on the sea wall - no he's not making sandcastles, he's digging for lug worms.

 Drift Wood a lovely piece but too big & heavy to carry far.

 One of the horse's in the field.

 Jet Ski racing.

 Lapwing - the colours are lovely never noticed this before.

Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium 

 Pheasant in moult

Sea Mayweed - tripleurospermum maritimum with a small tortoiseshell on it. 

 The tide was high today.

Wild Radish - Raphanus raphanistrum

Take Care.