Speckled Wood #butterflies

Pararge aegeria.

Picture taken August 20.

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Devil’s-bit scabious #plants

Succisa pratensis and visitor.

Photo taken August 20.

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Wild Service Tree #plants

Finally located Sorbus torminalis, must have passed it a hundred times without seeing.

Picture taken August 20.

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Bunch of sunshine #flowers

Common ragwort.

Common Ragwort, Senecio jacobaea.

Picture taken August 20.

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Common Lizard #reptiles

Not a great photo but wonderful to see for the first time a lightning fast Zootoca vivipara hunting in the wood.

Picture taken August 20.

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Nature’s bounty #plants

Bramble, Rubus fruticosus.

Picture taken August 20.

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Lazy afternoon #nature

South ride.

South ride, looking west.

Picture taken August 20.

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Fleabane #wildflowers

      

Flowers, Fleabane, August 2020

Pulicaria dysenterica.

Picture taken August 7.

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Gatekeeper #butterflies

Butterflies, Gatekeeper, August 2020

Pyronia tithonus. (more…)

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Guelder Rose #plants

Plants, Guelder Rose, August 2020

Viburnum opulus.

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Green-veined white #butterflies

 

 

 

Pieris napi, provisional identification, on Water Mint, Mentha aquatica. (more…)

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Muntjac #wildlife

 

 

Deer, Muntjac, July 2020

 

Female Muntiacus reevesi. (more…)

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