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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
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sgt.colon
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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Mon Apr 08, 19 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Today's walk was very enjoyable - it began rather misty and then he sun burnt through and it got rather warm. Heard Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiff Chaff and Cetti's Warbler amongst the songsters, and watched Red Kites, Buzzards and pair of courting Cranes, which was the highlight of the walk. Also watched a nest of Honey Bees busy carrying pollen into their nest in a hole in a tree. Remarkable variation in the colour of the pollen loads - mainly yellow but some distinctly red, which we guessed to have come from the nearby Aspen catkins. Also saw some Mining Bees whose identity is yet to be confirmed. Little to photograph, except these fish scales, found on a block near the edge of a dyke. Might be from a Pike, and perhaps the work of an Otter?
When I got home I heard Blackcap and Chiff Chaff in the garden!
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45376 Location: yes
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dpack
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45376 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45376 Location: yes
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 19 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Today's walk was at a site that most of us visited a couple of weeks ago (except me, who did not wake up to my alarm!)
Return visit was decided upon because at the first visit the Wild Garlic had not been in flower. Give it a couple of weeks and it will be fabulous, they said to each other, but they had reckoned without the weather going all wintry again, and it was still not showing much in the way of flowers! Give it a couple of weeks and it will be fabulous
But the Bluebells were quite good, and the Wood Anemones, and the Celandines and Primroses. The Toothwort was going over a bit. We had hoped to see this:
which our mycologists call Vinegar Cup (Helvella acetabulum) though the web seems to prefer Cabbage Leaf Helvella. Since it grows at ground level I did not bend down to sniff it to see if it did smell of vinegar, nor did I examine its underside to look for the ribs that are supposed to make it resemble a cabbage leaf! Sorry about that, but I'm no longer as flexible as I used to be
Also had excellent views of Red Kites, some of which were carrying twigs and bits of grass - presumably for nest building purposes.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45376 Location: yes
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