With it being World Book Day, I wanted to mention our BMS books.
Bk 1: focuses on grassland indicators with range of assocd species. Bk 2 has >200 different plants + assocd species. Example pages below.
£10 each: £2.70 postage for one, £3.90 for two,
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As the sun goes down on a lovely day, a Double-striped Pug rests on the kitchen window.
#moths #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #UKwildlife
And they’re back. And we’ve forgotten-you-not.
That must have been an amazing experience. Last year, we did limit ourselves to around 10 Buff Ermine caterpillars. Much easier to handle, though because they only ate the leaf surface we were forever in need of fresh apple leaves.
500! That must have been a work up!
Indeed there are. Luckily the flowers don’t smell dungy.
Certainly better odds than in the wild.
Here’s my record of Dewick’s Plusia. Quite a successful outcome I think, but not sure I’d want to start with that number again. Far too much wrangling and nettle gathering.
And a favourite of the Yellow Dung Fly for some reason.
On a garden lawn not far from here, a beautiful patch of Sweet Violet.
And today, dull and windy.
In the garden today, 7-spot Ladybird, Harlequin Ladybird, male Hairy-footed Flower-bee, Hawthorn bursting into leaf, Green Shieldbug and a non-biting midge.
Big, beautiful Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Pulmonaria.
😂
Got the order wrong there. To avoid confusion, should be left to right, top to bottom.
Black Nightshade
Dandelion
Daisy
Hairy Bittercress
Cherry Plum
Lesser Celandine
And here are the further six for this evening’s #wildflowerhour.
Dandelion
Daisy
Hairy Bittercress
Black Nightshade
Cherry Plum
Lesser Celendine
Quite a few flowers blooming on this week’s walks. The first nine of fifteen for this evening’s #wildflowerhour.
Cow Parsley
Common Field Speedwell
Groundsel
Alexanders
Petty Spurge
Sweet Violet
Common Chickweed
Common Sowthistle
Common Whitlowgrass
In our pond this evening, Newts are about.
#newts #WildlifePond #UKwildlife
#PostboxSaturday
Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
At the end of a culvert, the surging water would seem to be inhabited by a thrashing creature.
One of the best sounds
Rooks at Pensthorpe …. Loads of them.
#birds #UKwildlife
I seem to remember @djhbutterflies.bsky.social saying that these tricky to spot creatures tend to be near the middle of the photo, but I can’t see a thing. Did you hear them rather than see them? 😆
What a pleasure to see this Grey Wagtail at the ford recently, taking snacks from the shallows. The river’s going at quite a pace with all the recent rain.
#birds #UKwildlife
For this week’s #WildflowerHour, one of a large patch of Winter Heliotrope, and Cherry Plum just coming into flower.
The back of Wells, geese overhead, Little Grebes in the harbour and Brent Geese just prior to take-off.
The day that the sun shone. At last, a chance for a pleasant walk through Wighton and on to Wells, using an almost traffic free route. On the way, the Wells & Walsingham railway, a spectacular sky, a derelict farm building and ‘almost there’.
They all seem to have their own distinct phrases. Decades later, I can still remember a particular one from my younger days in my parents’ garden.
Wonderful to see a flock of Barnacle Geese coming in to land at Pensthorpe yesterday.
#birds #UKwildlife
I think we’ve been spotted.
