Category Archives: Wildflowers

Bramham Park flowers

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Sue Gaynor

Bramham Park is always a delight for any naturalist and never more so than in June when it is awash with wildflowers.  Abundant common spotted orchids were amongst the unmown grass interspersed with bee orchid, yellow rattle and twayblade.  To … Continue reading →

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Wild flowers at Anglers Country Park

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Sue Gaynor

The bright morning soon clouded over but within a few hundred yards of the car park we came across the first few northern marsh orchids and a hybrid common spotted orchid amongst a waving cloud of meadow buttercups and fading … Continue reading →

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Flowers at Wormstall Woods and Ledsham Vale

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Sue Gaynor

It was a cold, windy morning as we set off up the track to the woods but masses of celandine soon cheered us as we passed the first clump of sweet violets.  Goldilocks edged the path and as we reached … Continue reading →

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White butterbur at Bretton Country Park

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Roger Gaynor

On Monday 30 March I noticed a large patch of what appears to white butterbur (Petasites albus) growing in damp shady woodland close to the gate and Dam Head Bridge and old quarry at Bretton Hall Parkland (image attached).  I … Continue reading →

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More signs of spring

Posted on March 7, 2015 by John Gardner

Pauline dropped me a note to say she’d seen the first coltsfoot of spring at Stanley Ferry on 6th March. Coltsfoot is a sure sign that spring is on the way, Walking around Ackworth today, I noticed that lesser celandine was … Continue reading →

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Ledsham Vale late summer flowers

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Sue Gaynor

It was a bright, sunny day with a hint of autumn for our visit to the vale.   Corn sowthistle, rough hawksbit, both black and white bryony, creeping buttercup and cross-wort lined the pathway into the vale.   Harebells blew gently amongst … Continue reading →

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Wildflowers at Walton Colliery

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Sue Gaynor

The ground was very dry underfoot as we headed straight ahead out of the car park onto a well used path bordered by purple loosestrife and great willowherb mingling with the bright yellow of perennial sow-thistle. Gatekeeper and meadow brown … Continue reading →

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Wildflower walk at Brockadale

Posted on July 10, 2014 by John Gardner

The car park area on Ley Lane was so full of beautiful meadow crane’s bill, small-flowered crane’s bill, white campion, dropwort and creeping cinquefoil that it took a while for the group to progress onto the track to the left … Continue reading →

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Flowers at Pugneys

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Sue Gaynor

It was a fine morning for our walk along the lakeside at Pugneys with plenty of meadow buttercups, ox-eye daisies and bird’s-foot trefoil.  As we turned left we saw patches of cut leaved cranesbill, smooth hawks beard, dog-rose, common and … Continue reading →

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Stanley Ferry Flash records

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Mark Archer

Stanley Ferry Flash produced some good records, including lime hawk moth on a metal gatepost early in the evening of 16th May while on 23rd grasshopper warbler and cuckoo were present with a peregrine flying over (cathedral bird?) and four … Continue reading →

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