Above - 'Blood-veined Dock' a variety of Wood Dock Rumex sanguineus var sanguineus. A rare 'hortal' found in the woods at Howick...
Above - Birds Nest Orchid in three stages. Sprouting, in flower and gone to seed from last year. There were 10 spikes in the area mentioned a couple of weeks back. This time there was no 'creaking' in the woods.
3 Whitethroats were in the Village Wood along with two Roe Does, one in reddish summer coat the other just beginning to moult out of its greyish winter coat.
A Buzzard flew from the wood just behind our shed and away to the Heugh...
I like the new title, very Kenneth Grahame, so do you prefer Toad or Ratty as your new nickname?
ReplyDeleteHi Stewart, just catching up with your blog after a few days, some cracking stuff in there. Always inspiring stuff. Good to see Holy Island when the hoards have left. Like the new title too, whatever it means :-)
ReplyDeleteIt might just be temporary Alan, until I think of something better...
ReplyDeleteAndrew - Have a look on my map down the blog posts a week or two. Rumbling Kern is a rock feature on the coast here....