Last of the Early Purple Orchids

 

 

Flowers, Early Purple Orchid, May 2015

 

Couldn’t see any more Orchis mascula except this declining example. (more…)

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Yellow Pimpernel

 

 

Flowers, Yellow Pimpernel, provisional identification, May 2015

 

Lysimachia nemorum, provisional identification. Could be Lysimachia nummularia – Creeping Jenny. (more…)

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Flowering Spindle

 

 

Trees, Spindle, May 2015

 

Euonymus europaea. (more…)

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A test for butter lovers

 

 

Flowers, Creeping Buttercup, May 2015

 

If a yellow reflection appears when Creeping Buttercup is held up to the chin, it is a sign that the person likes butter. (more…)

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Greater Butterfly Orchid

 

 

Flowers, Greater Butterfly Orchid, May 2015

 

One of a pair of Platanthera chlorantha which have made a welcome re-appearance. (more…)

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‘The trees in the forest tower over me’

 

 

Trees, general, May 2015

 

From ‘The Trees Around You and Me’ by Madeline Schwartz. (more…)

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Wood Spurge

 

 

Flowers, Wood Spurge, May 2015

 

Euphorbia amygdaloides. (more…)

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Field Cuckoo Bumblebee

 

 

Bee, Buff-tailed bumblebee, provisional identification, May 2015

 

Bombus campestris, not Bombus terrestris as I had provisionally identified, on thistle. (more…)

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Ragged Robin

 

 

Flowers, Ragged Robin, May 2015

 

Lychnis flos-cuculi. (more…)

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Spring turns to Summer

 
North Ride, May 2015

The last weekend of May and the wood is suddenly an explosion of green trees and tall grasses. (more…)

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Sunlit Roe

 

 

Fauna, Roe Deer, May 2015

 

Capreolus capreolus. (more…)

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A rabbit who thinks it’s Harvey

 

 

Fauna, Rabbit, May 2015

 

An Oryctolagus cuniculus who appeared a couple of yards away and seemed to believe it was invisible … (more…)

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