Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Animals
Fallow Deer
Birds
Great Crested Grebe
Bees
Common carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Common carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) male
Butterflies
Peacock Butterfly
Speckled Wood Butterfly
Large White butterfly (Female)
Flies
Bee Fly
Liverworts
Forked veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Forked veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Slime Moulds
Reticularia lycoperdon
Reticularia lycoperdon
Woodland Plants
Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)
Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)
White version of Native Bluebell
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Primrose (Primula vulgaris)
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)
Cowslip (Primula Veris)
Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula)
Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula)
In the UK, Pendulous Sedge is locally common in England and Wales and can be found in wet, ancient woodland and riversides where it prefers heavy clay soils. The male flowers (topmost) when gentle touched release hundreds of fine yellow spores. The female flowers are located below the male flowers.
Glaucous Sedge (Carex flacca sus flacca)
Glaucous Sedge (Carex flacca sus flacca)
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Orange tip butterflies male & female.