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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 18 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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This Monday we had a reprise of last year's Adder hunt (see post on April 10 2017) and this year we were successful! We saw several Adders (though not all in very easy to see positions = this was the best picture I took:
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We also saw several Palmate Newts, having got to their pools before the dogs had muddied them to invisibility.
And we saw one Common Lizard and one Slow Worm (though we didn't search the prime Slow Worm habitat, wishing to leave them undisturbed as we had already seen one).
As before, Red Kites just about every time you looked in the sky, and several Bumble Bees and Brimstones, and a sunbathing Copper (edit to say that should have been COMMA, not Copper!). On one of the paths we found a very attractive, and rather moribund small bee, which turned out to be a Tawny Mining Bee (though originally misnamed Towny Mining Bee, due to small print in the bee guide!). I took it home, thinking it was dead, but it made a partial recovery and is now taking its chances in my garden.
Henry
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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gz
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 42207 Location: North Devon
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dpack
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15572
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45457 Location: yes
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15572
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Sat May 12, 18 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't go walking for a couple of Mondays - once because I was busy and then because we believed the dire weather forecast and cancelled.
But last Monday, a beautiful (and slightly too warm) day, we visited a site that was new to most of us. An old traditionally managed meadow that was pretty well carpeted with Green Veined Orchids (Orchis morio), and quite a good sprinkling of Cowslips as well.
But, though the plants were great, there was surprisingly little insect or bird life. We didn't see a single butterfly over the meadow, though we saw quite a few in the walk up to the site.
We did see another interesting plant on the way - Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus), which, though supposedly common is not a plant I see very often.
Despite the name, it is not closely related to Lesser Celandine, but a member of the Poppy family.
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15572
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