Kelling Heath
Silver Birch - Betula pendular
Juniper Hair Cap (Polytrichum juniperimum) Male plants
Puffball spp?
Willow Warbler singing this morning.
Short burst of Stonechat song flighting.
Stone Pit Wood
Liverwort spp?
Wych Elm - Ulmus glabra
Winter Heliotrope - Petasites fragrans
Woodlouse
One distant Redpoll of a party of thirty in the tops of the Birch, nibbling away.
and
a
Woodcock
Slime Mould?
Bracket Fungus Spp?
Silver Birch - Betula pendula
Strumpshaw Fen
Alder - Alnus glutinous catkins just about to unfurl
Those delicious new shoots
Bullfinch - Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Coot - Fulica atra
Shoveller - Anser clypeata
Fungi??
Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris
Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates
Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera
At least four Marsh Harriers
A pair of Chinese Water Deer
and
a
Fox
Foxley Wood
Oak standards (Quercus robur) with Hazel (Corylus Javellana) understorey.
Bracket Fungi?
Hazel Bark
Red Hazel flower
Male catkins below the female flower.
Hazel - Corylus avellana
Honeysuckle shoots - Lonicera periclymenum