On this day 7 August 2019

Hoary Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum)
 
Wednesday 7 August 2019

To day was windy but warm, sun very hot out of the wind. Had a slight bit of rain. Not many flowers today, but still plenty of Butterflies. Noticed the birds today and I think my next trip here I will concentrate on the birds, a few feeding on the seed heads.

Saw Darren and his mate again and they had been looking for the Hobby , not a bird I know and by the look and size I would be hard for me not to think it was a kestrel.


High light was the Dragonflies.


Female Black Darter (Sympetrum danae)

Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans)

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) ?

Spiky Bog-moss - Sphagnum squarrosum

Small Skipper butterfly 


Small Skipper butterfly 
Meadow Brown butterfly 

Robin

Blue tit



Great spotted woodpecker 

Goldcrest, 

Coal tit



Blackening Waxcap - Hygrocybe conica

Buddleia Tree

                                              Curly Waterweed   (Lagarosiphon major)
                                     Planorbella trivolvis, an air-breathing ramshorn snail

Bee on Common Knapweed

Painted Lady Butterfly on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)

Bee on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)

Water Starwort (Callitriche)

Hawkweed oxtongue (Picris hieracioides)

Large white Butterfly

Large white Butterfly

Female southern hawker

Flies on a flower

Peacock Butterfly

orange coloured bracket fungi growing on decaying timber

Heather (Calluna vulgaris)

Meadow / Green grasshopper

One of the water ways through the forest, Soft Rush (Juncus effusus), one of the main plants growing on the edge.

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