Tuesday 14 July 2020

We visit Danson Park in search of ???? Well: anything really

To Danson Park to look for anything really.

The Highlight? Possibly Mama (Tufted Duck) and her Children viz.


We reckon there were twelve Children. Bird' Species seen included: Canada Goose, Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Herring Gull, Jay (see under), Mallard, Mute Swan, Song Thrush and Tufted Duck.


Butterfly' Species seen: Gatekeeper, Green-Veined White, Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Red Admiral and Small White.

Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Bird's-Foot Trefoil
Bittersweet Black Horehound
Black Nightshade Bristly Oxtongue
Burdock (not yet flowering)
Common Knapweed viz.


Common Ragwort
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle viz.




Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Fat Hen
Field Bindweed
Goat's-Rue
Great Willowherb
Greater Plantain
Groundsel Gypsywort
Hedgerow Crane's-Bill
Hemlock Water-Dropwort ???
Hemp-Agrimony
Lady's Bedstraw
Red Dead-Nettle
Ribwort Plantain
Selfheal
Spear Thistle
Tufted Vetch
White Clover
and Yarrow

A few Damselflies were out and about: including these Guys:



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