'Winter Bumblebees'

We submitted Bumblebee Records to iRecord: for the BWARS's Winter' Bumblebee Project viz.

15 December 2020: [i] one White-Tailed and two Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Gorse on Bostall Heath (the Royal Borough of Greenwich) and [ii] three Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Rosemary in Lesnes Abbey Park:

17 December 2020: one White-Tailed Bumblebee visiting Gorse on Bostall Heath (the Royal Borough of Greenwich)

27 December 2020: at least four Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Mahonia in Lesnes Abbey Park:

19 February 2021: a single Buff-Tailed Bumblebee visiting a Crocus in Lesnes Abbey Park...

21 February 2021: at least four Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Crocuses in Lesnes Abbey Park...

23 February 2021: [i] at least two Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Crocuses in Lesnes Abbey Park and [ii] a Buff-Tailed Bumblebeee visiting a Dandelion flowering beside the Public Footpath running between Church Manorway and the Thames Path (in Erith)...

24 February 2021: three Buff-Tailed Bumblebees visiting Crocuses flowering on a Grass Verge beside Park View Road (close to Danson Park)...

26 February 2021: [i] a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee, visiting Red Dead-Nettle and [ii] a Red-Tailed Bumblebee, visiting Common Field-Speedwell, both on the Crossness Nature Reserve...

27 February 2021: a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee on the East Wickham Open Space...

Footnote: the Records have all been accepted...

The Wild Flower Society', Winter Plant Hunt 2020/21

The Winter Plant Hunt (for Plants in flower) kicked off on 1 December 2020: and ends today (28 February 2021):

Wild Flowers seen during December 2020:

Annual Mercury

Black Horehound

Black Nightshade

Bramble

Common Chickweed

Common Field-Speedwell

Common Fumitory viz.

Common Knapweed

Common Sow-Thistle

Common Vetch

Cow Parsley

Creeping Thistle

Daisy

Dandelion

Gorse

Groundsel

Herb Robert

Hoary Mustard

Hogweed

Ivy-Leaved Toadflax

Jersey Cudweed

Lesser Calamint

Narrow-Leaved Ragwort

Oxford Ragwort

Pot Marigold

Red Campion

Red Clover

Red Dead-Nettle

Round-Leaved Crane's-Bill

Scentless Mayweed

Sea Aster

Shepherd's-Purse

Small-Flowered Crane's-Bill

Spear Thistle

Stinking Hellebore

Viper's-Bugloss

White Campion

White Clover

White Dead-Nettle

White Ramping-Fumitory

Wild Carrot

Winter Heliotrope viz.

Yarrow

During January 2021:

New to the List:

Common Whitlowgrass

Creeping Buttercup

Forget-me-Not

Garlic Mustard

Green Alkanet

Hairy Bittercress

Hazel viz.

Lesser Celandine

Mouse-Ear Hawkweed

Pink-Headed Persicaria 

Sun Spurge

Sweet Violet

Wavy Bittercress

During February 2021:

New to the List:

Dog's Mercury

Ivy-Leaved Speedwell

Primrose

Three-Cornered Garlic/Leek

Wild Daffodil

Our First Hairy-Footed Flower-Bee of the Year

Seen visiting Red Dead-Nettle growing on a Grass Verge beside Wickham Lane (the Royal Borough of Greenwich), where it meets Okehampton Crescent viz.

A Hoverfly with Spotted Eyes

Our first-ever, Eristalinus aeneus: visiting Common Field-Speedwell, on the Crossness Nature Reserve viz.