Townhills Close field meeting

A good session at this new location for our field meeting though many of the orchids we’d expected were hardly out due to the very late spring.

Bush Vetch
Red Clover
White Clover
Meadow Buttercup
Ribwort Plantain
Yellow Rattle
Goat’s Beard
Ox-eye Daisy
Bird’s Foot Trefoil
Eye Bright
Fairy Flax
Common Mouse Ear
Black Medic
Ransoms
Dew Berry
Black Bryony
Sanicle
Dogwood
Common Gromwell
Marjoram
Ragwort (NIF)
Self Heal
Campion
Hairy Rock Cress
Yellow Archangel
Herb Bennett
Common Spotted Orchid (NIF)
Hoary Plantain
Quaking Grass
St John’s Wort (NIF)
Winter Cress
Germander Speedwell
Meadow Cranesbill (NIF)
Crosswort
Tutsan
Common Sorrell
Comfrey
Birds
whitethroat, bullfinch, chiffchaff, goldfinch, great tit, blue tit, robin, magpie

Butterflies
common blue, peacock

Brockadale YWT wild flower walk

The wildflower group were out and about again today, this time at Brockadale YWT reserve and Sue has sent in this list of sightings:
Cow Parsley (abundant)
Ox-eye daisy
Salad Burnet
Kidney vetch
Ground Ivy
Wood Avens
Yellow Vetchling
Lesser Hawkbit
Ribwort Plantain
Germander Speedwell
Red Clover
Red Campion
White Campion
Birdsfoot trefoil
Yellow Hay Rattle
Butterbur
Common Sorrel
Black Medic
Hogweed
Mugwort
Rock Rose (abundant)
Hairy Rock Cress
Mouse Ear Hawkweed
Field Mouse Ear
Pignut
Common Gromwell
Quaking Grass
Garlic Mustard
Bladder Campion
Bulbous Buttercup
Black Bryony
White Bryony
Goat’s Beard (Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon)
Fairy Flax
White Clover
Milkwort
Horseshoe Vetch
Pineappleweed
Crosswort
Wild Mignonette (NIF)
Common Plantain
Goose Grass
Dogs Mercury
Early Purple Orchid
Tormentil
Lady’s Mantle
Creeping Buttercup
Cut leaved Cranesbill
Clustered Bellflower
Twayblade

Common Gromwell (Lithospermum officinale)

Common Gromwell (Lithospermum officinale)

A few birds were also noted including yellowhammer, skylark, sparrowhawk, kestrel and whitethroat.
And in the butterflies and moths they notched up brimstone, orange tip and chimney sweep moth (lots)