Many years have passed since we first visited Petts Wood and Hawkwood: and it had been a few years since we last visited.
For most of the time the Sun shone and we saw Bees (including Common Carder and Hairy-Footed Flower Bees), Bee-Flies, Butterflies, Hoverflies and Wild Flowers. Also a few Birds including a male Pheasant (first heard, then seen) and a few Jackdaws (in the Soldier's Field) viz.
Butterfly species seen: Brimstone viz.
Comma, Green-Veined White, Orange-Tip, Peacock, Small White and Speckled Wood
Wild Flower species seen included:
Bluebell viz.
Brooklime
Common Dog-Violet
Common Mouse-Ear
Common Stork's-Bill
Common Vetch
Cow Parsley
Dandelion
Garlic Mustard
Germander Speedwell
Green Alkanet viz.
Hogweed
Ivy-Leaved Speedwell
Lesser Celandine
Lords-and-Ladies (Arum maculatum)
Pendulous Sedge
Red Dead-Nettle
Wavy Bittercress
White Dead-Nettle
Wild Garlic viz.
Wood Anemone
Wood Avens
Wood Sage
Wood Sorrel
Wood Speedwell viz.
and Yellow Archangel