What a scorching day for our walk around Rabbit Ings, we were fortunate to be accompanied by one of the rangers, Tom, who let us take the cars up onto the established heath area where heather is now thriving, saving us the long walk up the hill.\u00a0 Goats-rue was abundant, also imperforate St John\u2019s wort, lesser trefoil and weld. Under the shade of young birch we found individual yellow-wort, beautiful clumps of common centaury amongst white bedstraw, wild carrot, viper\u2019s bugloss and trailing tormentil.<\/p>\n
In the bright sunshine small skippers, ringlets and meadow brown butterflies fluttered. Water has unexpectedly gathered in an area just below the car park attracting a heron, the swans have managed to rear four cygnets this year and there were numerous swifts darting about.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Yellow-wort at Rabbit Ings<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>common centaury at Rabbit Ings<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What a scorching day for our walk around Rabbit Ings, we were fortunate to be accompanied by one of the rangers, Tom, who let us take the cars up onto the established heath area where heather is now thriving, saving … Continue reading