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.

Tuesday 24 May

Dry morning - did our usual walk

We are to have a play area on the picnic ground - let's hope they can mount a 24 hour guard on it when it is finished - with the amount of vandalism on the park it will need it. 

Take Care.

Sunday 22 May

Thought we might get wet this morning but we stayed dry - the sun was trying to make a show and but for the wind it would have been very warm.

We went to the Large Bitter cress this morning and none of the buds had changed so I took one. At home I opened the bud to find two of these - they are actually less than 2mm in length. It is Dasineura cardaminis a larvae that produces a swollen bud or gall on Large Bittercress.

Dasineura cardaminis 

Dasineura cardaminis the two in a petre dish.

 Bittersweet Buds - Solanum dulcamara

Black Headed Gull

 Common Bistort  - Persicaria bistorta

 Dactylorhiza x grandis - Orchid Hybrids

 Elder - Sambucus nigra

Fly for ID

This Frog was on the Pond Field it was too quick for us to hold for a good close up.

Sunny Brow Gate

Primrose Hill Gate

 Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Leaves - Lotus pedunculatus

 Green Dock Beetle Larvae very similar to ladybird larvae but this one makes lace patterns in the dock leaves.

A very obliging 7 Spot Ladybird

Mallards

 Pixie Cup Lichen - Cladonia sp.

Edwina was out showing her babes off.

White Lipped Snail

 Yarrow Leaves- Achillea millefolium

Yarrow Buds - Achillea millefolium

Hope you enjoy the little movie of Edwina and her babes.

Take Care