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For as long as I can remember I've had a love of natural history, especially birds.
So many of the things we see, the experiences we taste, are but a fleeting moment, there to be treasured, but all too often flying away to rest only in our memories. I'm trying to improve my photography so that it too can try and capture some of those moments. As I look at the WAB gallery, I'll have to let my admiration lead to aspiration, not desparation. In the meantime, I can jot down a few experiences and thoughts by way of a blog - nothing too profound, just what it says on the tin... my miscellaneous musings. Thanks for taking the time to have a look and please feel free to leave any comments.
Jonners
So many of the things we see, the experiences we taste, are but a fleeting moment, there to be treasured, but all too often flying away to rest only in our memories. I'm trying to improve my photography so that it too can try and capture some of those moments. As I look at the WAB gallery, I'll have to let my admiration lead to aspiration, not desparation. In the meantime, I can jot down a few experiences and thoughts by way of a blog - nothing too profound, just what it says on the tin... my miscellaneous musings. Thanks for taking the time to have a look and please feel free to leave any comments.
Jonners
Bedevilled by flowers
Posted 22-06-2009 at 10:26 PM by Jonners
I took a brief walk along the Devil's Dyke near Newmarket this morning. The Devil's Dyke is an Anglo Saxon earthwork stretching in a near perfect straight line from the edge of the Fens at Reach to the more wooded clay of Ditton Green to the east. It is a rare example in this area of chalk grassland and is apparently home to many chalkland species of flowers and butterflies. My flower identification skills are pretty poor really, so I have uploaded some to the unidentified wildflowers forum for the experts to enlighten me. It was certainly colourful though, with various vetch-like flowers, myriad grasses and plenty of pyramidal orchids.
Another couple of WABbers had pointed me in this direction for Lizard Orchids, but my time ran out before I reached them so I shall have to try again. I shall look forward to that, when hopefully I will have more time to take in all of the flora and maybe try and track down a few of the butterflies too. In the meantime I await with interest the findings of the WAB wildflower brigade, so that I can find out exactly what I did see
although one I am pretty sure of was Hoary Plantain or Lamb's Tongue; it may be quite common, but you can't deny its delicate beauty
Another couple of WABbers had pointed me in this direction for Lizard Orchids, but my time ran out before I reached them so I shall have to try again. I shall look forward to that, when hopefully I will have more time to take in all of the flora and maybe try and track down a few of the butterflies too. In the meantime I await with interest the findings of the WAB wildflower brigade, so that I can find out exactly what I did see
although one I am pretty sure of was Hoary Plantain or Lamb's Tongue; it may be quite common, but you can't deny its delicate beauty
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