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Yorkshire - Kildwick and the Leeds/Liverpool Canal
Posted 05-08-2008 at 11:16 AM by leifus
We followed a river while walking across fields before walking up the hill to follow the Leeds/Liverpool canal. W estarted by walking past an arable field where I found groundsel, fat-hen, redshank and knotgrass as well as creeping yellow-cress. By the river, indian balsam grew everywhere, but there was enough room for mugwort and water figwort and rough hawkbit and fox and cubs in the grass. We then moved into a field full of creeping thistles and were suprised to find at least 20 small tortoiseshells flitting from flower to flower. At last I was able to get a really good small tortoiseshell photo!
In the next field there was an almost dried up pond surrounded by common reeds and branched bur-reed. This was the best bit of the walk because I found marsh cudweed, river water-crowfoot and celery-leaved buttercups.
Finally, along the canal, there was lots of gipsywort and I found an odd, almost helleborine-like, flower that had finished, but still left the seed head and leaves so I posted it in the wildflowers forum.
In the next field there was an almost dried up pond surrounded by common reeds and branched bur-reed. This was the best bit of the walk because I found marsh cudweed, river water-crowfoot and celery-leaved buttercups.
Finally, along the canal, there was lots of gipsywort and I found an odd, almost helleborine-like, flower that had finished, but still left the seed head and leaves so I posted it in the wildflowers forum.
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