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:


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