We take a turn around Lesnes Abbey Woods and Lesnes Abbey Park

With a change in the weather in prospect, we are hoping the Butterfly Season might finally get underway: we are seeing a few but it's still very quiet, Butterfly-Wise. So we were pleased to see this Green-Veined White Butterfly in Lesnes Abbey Park:

And we saw a Crane Fly, our first in the Park this year viz.

Wild Flower Species seen in Lesnes Abbey Woods and Lesnes Abbey Park included:

Alexanders

Black Spleenwort (on the Abbey Ruins)

Bluebell

Brooklime

Bulbous Buttercup viz.

Common Ragwort

Common Vetch viz.

Creeping Thistle

Foxglove

Garlic Mustard

Germander Speedwell viz.

Greater Plantain

Greater Stitchwort

Ground-Ivy

Hairy Tare viz.

Hedgerow Crane's-Bill

Hedge Mustard

Herb Robert

Hogweed

Ivy-Leaved Speedwell

Ivy-Leaved Toadflax (on the Abbey Ruins) viz.

Lesser Celandine

Lords-and-Ladies

Maidenhair Spleenwort (on the Abbey Ruins)

Meadow Vetchling

Nipplewort

Pellitory-of-the-Wall

Red Campion

Red Dead-Nettle

Soapwort

Thyme-Leaved Sandwort (on the Abbey Ruins) viz.

Wall-Rue (on the Abbey Ruins)

Wall Speedwell (on the Abbey Ruins)

White Dead-Nettle

White Stonecrop

Wild Garlic

Wood Anemone

Wood Melick

Wood Sorrel viz.

Yellow Archangel viz.

and Yellow Pimpernel viz.

Footnote: we have been hoping to see some Ducklings in the Pine Pond in Lesnes Abbey Woods. So far alas, nothing doing. The only Birds present were a single Moorhen and this Mallard: