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| | Welcome to our newest member, Penali18 | |  | Posted 22-08-2008 at 12:34 PM by leifus Tennyson Down is a wind-battered down on the south-west side of the Isle of Wight. It is an area of short calcareous grassland where most of the flowers are extremely short because of the constant wind and rabbits  .
It is an area that supports early gentians and glanville fritillaries in spring. Today the flower life was very good, but because of the size of all the flowers I had to look quite hard.
First flower of the day was rock-samphire by the sea quickly followed by a meadow... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 22-08-2008 at 12:23 PM by leifus Brading Marshes is a new RSPB Nature Reserve in Brading (suprise, suprise ). It wasn't too good to be honest, but I found trifid bur-marigold, common club-rush and water plantain, so I did add to my photo collection. | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 22-08-2008 at 12:21 PM by leifus My grandparents are lucky enough to have a colony of autumn lady's-tresses in their back garden. There were 30 spikes at the beggining of the week and 32 at the end | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 16-08-2008 at 05:51 PM by leifus Last time we visited Upper Crockford the sun was nowhere to be seen, but we were a lot luckier this time. The stream runs across the heath and eventually through the woods. It is shallow and slow moving with plenty of heather and a few reeds so is perfect for dragonflies - and so it proved!!
We recorded 10 different species of dragonfly and damselfly. Common and ruddy darters preferred the heath and bogs to the stream, as well as an emerald damselfly and a couple of blue-tailed. Three golden-ringed... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 12-08-2008 at 12:56 PM by leifus Trafalgar is a private country estate used mainly for fishing but it has a public footpath running through the middle. It is a haven for dragonflies and butterflies and some interesting wetland wildflowers grow there as well.
We started by walking along the paths that separated river from pond where we saw river water-crowfoot, purple loosesrtife, wild angelica, which attracted many insects including Helophilus trivittatus, Myathropa florae and the large hoverfly, Volucella inanis, pink-water... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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