To Petts Wood and Hawkwood (the LB of Bromley)

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