leifus

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19-06-2011 08:12 PM - permalink
Deb London

Thanks for the Great Burnet confirmation leifus. :-D
24-12-2010 04:59 PM - permalink
Deb London

Have a happy Christmas leifus!
10-12-2010 04:34 PM - permalink
KeenTeen17

I am BACK baby :D
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01-11-2010 08:22 AM - permalink
Robert S J Smith

yep man orchids are pretty smart. when my grandad took me to see the bird's-nest orchid he took one look at them and said ''we've traveled all this way for a dead plant'' lol and if i get the chance i will do...
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30-10-2010 07:44 PM - permalink
Robert S J Smith

cool, I only got into my orchids late in the season last year and have so far seen 11. This year I managed to add Man and Bird's-nest Orchid to my list. Next year I'm planning to see all the orchids that grow in norfolk (22 in total) or atleast clear up the gaps.

atb,

Robert
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29-10-2010 08:35 AM - permalink
Robert S J Smith

Hiya Leif

Cheers for accepting me.

Yes I am very much interested in wildflower and yes particularly in Orchids, I take it you are too?

Regards,

Robert
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25-10-2010 05:19 PM - permalink
Robert S J Smith

hello

hope you don’t mind the friend request its just nice to find people my own age of there abouts with the same interests.

kind regards,

robert
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17-08-2010 07:33 AM - permalink
Deb London

Thank you leifus!

I am really impressed with Rose, actually. You need to learn how to use it, but it has loads of info. I was using a hand lens last night to check it is spearmint in our garden, learning about the shape of the calyx etc. It is so therapeutic to look at the intricate details of flowers at 30 x or whatever. I like Rose because it requires that you look closely, and I would have missed all that beauty.

Have a nice time, leifus.

Thanks again.
17-08-2010 06:48 AM - permalink
leifus

Hi Deb! Yes 'lc' is locally common as far as I'm aware (: how are you finding Rose? I have it but also use the Collins Flower Guide by David Streeter which is also very good (this doesn't really have abbreviations which is quite useful!).

Leif

PS I won't be able to reply for a few days because I'm out.
17-08-2010 06:34 AM - permalink
Deb London

Liefus, can I be a pain and ask a question? I finally bought the Francis Rose wild flower key and I'm working out how to use it. I cannot see "lc" in the abbreviations section. "L" is local and "c" is common. So I assume "lc" is locally common? Am I right?
Thank you!

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List of British Birds

Posted 04-01-2009 at 03:24 PM

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Red-throated diver
Black-throated diver
Great northern diver
Little grebe
Great-crested grebe
Red-necked grebe
Slavonian grebe
Black-necked grebe
Fulmar
Cory’s shearwater
Great shearwater
Manx shearwater
Mediterranean shearwater
Storm petrel
Leach’s petrel
Gannet
Cormorant
Shag
Bittern
Little egret
Grey heron
White stork
Spoonbill
Mute swan...

December 2008

Posted 26-12-2008 at 09:34 AM

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And finally, we reached December and the 20th marked the start of the Christmas holidays and I celebrated by cycling down to Bentley Wood which turned out to be a good idea as I found Pholiota highlandensis, Mycena polygramma, Crepidotus applanatus and two wood blewits, Lepista nuda! What a morning! Then, finally finally I found three fairy rings of Lepista flaccida underneath the Cedar trees, 3 or 4 metres in diameter!

To finally finish then…..2008 has been a brilliant year...

November 2008

Posted 26-12-2008 at 09:33 AM

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Back to Winterslow for the start of November and I went into the Plantation to see what fungi was still growing. I found an old Flammulina velutipes, some Crepidotus variablis, Hebeloma crustuliniforme, Lycoperdon pyriforme and a few others. The next day we walked through Hound Wood and I found Clitocybe nebularis and Mycena epipterygia and sharp-leaved fluellen in the arable fields. On the 4th I went to Blackmoor Copse and found various bracket fungi such as Bjerkandera adusta and Daedalea quercina...

October 2008

Posted 26-12-2008 at 09:32 AM

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With the flowers almost gone, the months seemed to get shorter and shorter wildlife-wise and into October we went. I didn’t get round to much before the 18th (I wish I had been out and about looking for fungi…) when we went down to Farlington Marshes on a nice day, but there wasn’t much around. I did, however, get photos of Canadian fleabane and spotted medick (not the flower). A few waders around already: redshank, dunlin, black-tailed godwits, ringed plovers and grey plovers. Quite a few shovelers...

September 2008

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August proved to be a very fruitful month but next we move on…
…to September which started in the garden, with Dad mowing the lawn, and I found two female Roesel’s bush-crickets, which are quite rare, in the long grass.
On the 2nd I was lucky enough to be invited to Dean Hill Park by Pat Woodruffe who readily showed me the wonderful flora and fauna there.
There was quite a lot of red hemp-nettle (well - two patches) and I got some great photos!! Along the old railway we also...