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| | Welcome to our newest member, Penali18 | |  | Posted 27-08-2008 at 10:02 AM by leifus Mum and I cycled through Hound wood and then on from Farley to Pitton. In Hound wood I found greater knapweed, wall-pepper, orpine, devil's-bit scabious (lots and lots of this - I'm surprised they don't have marsh fritillaries each year!!) and what I think is old rosy garlic (I'll have to go back in May-June to confirm that). On the road to Pitton I found flax and then greater celendine in Pitton.
FLOWER OF THE DAY: Rosy garlic  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 27-08-2008 at 09:59 AM by leifus After escaping the "crowds" and games of cricket going on by the car park, I found hundreds of field gentians growing on the wide expanse of plain. They were in among the autumn lady's-tresses of which there were thousnads!! I've never seen so many in my life!!
FLOWER OF THE DAY: Bog orchids!! - all 13
INSECT OF THE DAY: Keeled skimmer
BIRD OF THE DAY: Snipe | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 27-08-2008 at 09:56 AM by leifus Here we were looking for marsh gentians, but unfortunately didn't find any. More marsh st. john's-wort and dwarf gorse, two heath milkwort flowers and a late bog asphodel that was still flowering long after all the others had gone to seed. Dad disturbed a snipe in the heather. | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 27-08-2008 at 09:54 AM by leifus Matley Bog looked like a heath from the car park, but was actually very boggy!! I was looking for bog orchids and we were searching for 45 minutes before I found 13 of them, growing on the Sphagnum moss in the bog. The tallest was only 8cm, but most of them were only 3cm. It isn't very easy searching a massive bog for something so small and dull-coloured, but definately worth it in the end!! I also found a patch of lesser bladderwort (easily distinguishable from its greater cousin because of its... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 25-08-2008 at 12:36 PM by leifus Wild Flowers
Sweet violet
Lesser Celandine
Dandelion
Daisy
Cat’s-ear
Beaked Hawk’s-beard
Smooth Hawk’s-beard
Rough Hawkbit
Goat’s-beard
Greater Stitchwort
Ground Ivy
Hop Trefoil
Lesser Trefoil
Black Medick
Common Sorrel
Common Broomrape
Hairy Tare
Smooth Tare
Common Vetch
Bush Vetch
Meadow Vetchling
Common Restharrow
Dog-rose... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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