Saturday, 20 June 2020

To the Holly Hill Open Space to look for Butterflies &c.

We bad intended to go by Bicycle but decided to walk (via the Upper Bedon Stream): hopeful of finding the Spotted Spurge first seen during 2017 (and mentioned in Kent Botany 2017)  in the local Monad. And Yippee: we found some viz.


Butterfly' Species seen beside the Upper Bedon Stream included this Small White Butterfly:


and our first Ringlet Butterfly for 2020 in the London Borough of Bexley.

And now the Creeping Thistles are coming to flower we are hoping to see lots of Little Guys visiting viz.


Butterfly' Species seen on the Holly Hill Open Space included these Guys:



Wild Flower' Species seen whilst walking to/from the Upper Bedon Stream included:

Annual Mercury
Black Bindweed viz.


Black Medick
Broad-Leaved Everlasting-Pea
Common Chickweed
Common Mallow
Common Ragwort
Creeping Cinquefoil
Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Dwarf Mallow
Fat Hen
Field Bindweed
Forget-me-Not viz.


Four-Leaved Allseed
Greater Plantain
Greater Willowherb
Green Alkanet
Groundsel
Hart's-Tongue Fern
Henbit Dead-Nettle
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Jersey Cudweed
Knotgrass
Nipplewort
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Pot Marigold
Purple-Leaved Yellow-Sorrel
Red Valerian
Ribwort Plantain
Sow-Thistle
Spotted Spurge (see above)
Sun Spurge
Wall Barley
White Clover
Willowherb(s)
and Yarrow

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