To the Crossness Nature Reserve and Surrounding area in search of either a Wheatear or Whinchat

Nothing doing alas: no Meadow Pipit or Stonechat either. Possibly too Windy?

But there were a few Bees &c. about: including a Shrill Carder Bee.

Wild Flower' Species seen on the Reserve &c. included:

Bird's-Foot Trefoil
Black Horehound
Black Medick
Bristly Oxtongue
Common Fleabane
Common Mallow
Common Toadflax
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle viz.

Field Bindweed
Goat's-Rue
Goosefoot sp.
Greater Plantain
Groundsel
Fat Hen
Hawkweed Oxtongue
Hoary Cress
Hoary Ragwort
Lesser Burdock (still a few flowers)
Marsh Cudweed
Mugwort
Narrow-Leaved Bird's-Foot Trefoil
Red Bartsia (with a Shrill Carder Bumblebee) viz.

Red Clover
Ribwort Plantain
Scentless Mayweed
Sea Beet
Sea Club-Rush
Spear-Leaved Orache
Spear Thistle
Strawberry Clover
Sun Spurge
Teasel viz.

Twiggy Spurge
White Clover
Wild Carrot
and Yarrow