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Yorkshire - River Worth and the Worth Valley
Posted 05-08-2008 at 09:46 AM by leifus
We walked along the Worth valley following the river.
We started by walking down the hill to the river where I found sticky groundsel growing by the road, welsh poppies and redshank. Down by the river there were flowers such as pink purslane, common chickweed, water forget-me-not, water-cress and a couple of late cuckooflowers. In the water meadows I found common valerian, common hemp-nettles, blue-water speedwell, lesser stitchwort and water purslane. Then there was a drier meadow with harebells, betony and tormentil, before we walked along an old lane with an old stone wall, on which grew feverfew, common orache, sheep's-sorrell and white stonecrop.
We discovered a wonderful pond in the middle of a small field which supported water-cress, water forget-me-not, marsh willowherb, the two cuckooflowers and lesser spearwort.
Even though the sun wasn't out and it wasn't exactly warm either, we still saw 4 different damselflies: azure, common blue, blue-tailed and emerald, and also a common hawker.
A few butterflies flying including ringlets and green-veined whites.
Again, not many birds other than a dipper, jay and two young willow warblers that hopped about on the wall before playing chase with each other - all about 3 or 4 metres away from us!!
We started by walking down the hill to the river where I found sticky groundsel growing by the road, welsh poppies and redshank. Down by the river there were flowers such as pink purslane, common chickweed, water forget-me-not, water-cress and a couple of late cuckooflowers. In the water meadows I found common valerian, common hemp-nettles, blue-water speedwell, lesser stitchwort and water purslane. Then there was a drier meadow with harebells, betony and tormentil, before we walked along an old lane with an old stone wall, on which grew feverfew, common orache, sheep's-sorrell and white stonecrop.
We discovered a wonderful pond in the middle of a small field which supported water-cress, water forget-me-not, marsh willowherb, the two cuckooflowers and lesser spearwort.
Even though the sun wasn't out and it wasn't exactly warm either, we still saw 4 different damselflies: azure, common blue, blue-tailed and emerald, and also a common hawker.
A few butterflies flying including ringlets and green-veined whites.
Again, not many birds other than a dipper, jay and two young willow warblers that hopped about on the wall before playing chase with each other - all about 3 or 4 metres away from us!!
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