Monday, 15 April 2024

Whilst visiting two horses of our acquaintance yesterday in Kent, we looked for Wild Flowers around the Duck Pond and saw:

Annual Meadow-Grass
Daisy
Buttercup (Bulbous)
Buttercup (Meadow)
Common Field-Speedwell
Common Ragwort

Cow Parsley
Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Early Forget-me-Not
Groundsel
Red Dead-Nettle
Spotted Medick
Sticky Mouse-Ear
Thale Cress
Wall Speedwell
and White Dead-Nettle


Additionally, we spotted this Hoverfly (Eupeodes sp.) visiting a Dandelion:


Monday, 1 April 2024

To the New Woolwich Cemetery via the East Wickham Open Space

In the New Woolwich Cemetery, we saw our first Small White Butterfly of the year and a possible Green-Veined White Butterfly. Also a Common Carder (Ginger-Bonce) Bee visiting Green Alkanet viz.


Plant species seen flowering in the Cemetery included:

Comfrey (either Common or White)
Common Field-Speedwell
Common Stork's-Bill
Daisy
Dandelion
Field Wood-Rush
Green Alkanet
Meadow Foxtail
Red Dead-Nettle
and Sweet Vernal Grass viz.


In the nearby Old Woolwich Cemetery there was lots of Spring Beauty: not yet flowering.

And on the East Wickham Open Space, there were a few Hairy-Footed Flower-Bees visiting Red Dead-Nettle and we saw our first Buttercups of the year including this Bulbous Buttercup viz. sepals turned down: