Lower Ashwelthorpe Wood is the Ramsoms capital of Norfolk.

Spectacular when the sun shone.











Superb old Oak - Quercus robur, at the entrance.

Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe











Wood Spurge - Euphorbia amygdaloides





Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula









Wood Speedwell - Veronica montana





A very strange Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scriptum



New growth on a Bramble.












Ramsoms - allium ursinum up close.



Wood Sedge - Carex sylvatica





Lower Wood is an ancient woodland and has a high number of Hornbeam.

Hornbeam have these wonderful twig clusters on the trunk.

Tag CloudLandscape, Bluebells, Bramble, WoodSpurge, WoodSpeedwell, EarlyPurpleOrchid, WoodSedge

Just on the edge of the heath is this glorious Oak - Quercus robur. Looking resplendent in it's spring green.

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Honesty - Lunaria annua







Ramsoms - Allium ursinum

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Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes

Singing gustily in the cold and wind of the morning.



Jackdaw - Corvus monedula



Field Woodrush - Luzula campestris







Bulbous Buttercup - Ranunculus bulbous











Common Cornsalad - Valerianella locusta









Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula

Tag CloudWren, Jackdaw, FieldWoodRush, BulbousButtercup, Cornsalad, EarlyPurpleOrchid

Red Campion - Silene dioica





Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula







Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris







Prickly Sowthistle - Sonchus asper

Tag CloudEarlyPurpleOrchid, CowParsley, PricklySowthistle, RedCampion

Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris











Ramsoms - allium ursine



Brown edges to the bracts







Scentless Mayweed - Tripleurospermum inodorum

This is one of Norfolk's roadside nature reserves on the road from Sustead to Gresham

Two Blackcaps singing at the their territories boundary. (Unfortunately not recorded) Blackbird, Chiffchaff, Wren, Blue Tit

and
this
Chaffinch

Tag CloudScentlessMayweed, Ramsoms, CrabApple, SoundRecording

Silver Birch - Betula pendular





Juniper Hair Cap (Polytrichum juniperimum) Male plants



Puffball spp?

Willow Warbler singing this morning.



Short burst of Stonechat song flighting.

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A roadside nature reserve near Metton

Meadow Saxifrage - Saxifraga granulata











Bulbous buttercup - Ranunculus bulbosus









Germander Speedwell - Veronica chamaedrys



Common Speedwell - Veronica officinalis

Tag CloudMeadowSaxifrage, BulbousButtercup, GermanderSpeedwell

Linnet - Linnaria cannabina









Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta








Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola

Tag CloudAvocet, Landscape, Stonechat, Linnets

Early Purple Orchid - Orchis mascula

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Cuckoo Pint - Arum maculatum

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The old and the new. Fresh reed growth back by the old.



Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga, plump and delicious awaiting blooms.







Alder - Alnus glutinosa








Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis







Fly?



Large Bitter Cress - Cardamine amara







Goat Willow - Salix caprea



Rush?







Marsh Valerian - Valeriana dioica

These are male plants with stamens and anthers

Marsh Valerian from WildFlowerFinder.org

Tag CloudWillow, MarshValerian, CuckooFlower, Alder, Brooklime, LargeBitterCress

Carpet of Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta





The twists and turns of Sweet Chestnut trunks. - Castanea sativa







Oak - Quercus roubar



Common Lime - Tilia x europea



Wood Sorrell leaves in the grass - Oxalis acetosela

Tag CloudOak, Lime, SweetChestnut, Bluebells, WoodSorrell, Landscape

Oak - Quercus robur

Superb old Oaks on the edge of the main pools.



Speckled Wood - Pararge algeria









Herb Robert - Geranium robertianum







Broom - Cytisus scoparius

The curves in Broom are quite spectacular.



Hidden in the Broom bush a Long tailed Tit's nest covered in Lichen.



Dandelion - Taraxacum official



Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis



Orange Tip - Anthocaris cardamons

Tag CloudLandscape, OrangeTip, Oak, LongTailedTit, Broom, HerbRobert, CuckooFlower

Yellow Archangel - Lamium galeobdolon









Herb Robert - Geranium robertanium

A white one.

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Our Easter Bunny brought eggs and daffodils this morning. Caught on camera before disappearing for another year.














Jack-by-the-hedge - Allaria petiolata

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Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta



Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea



Large Bee-fly - Bombylius major







Common Dog Violet - Viola raviniana









Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

and
the
little guys are a micro moth

The Marsh Marigold Moth - Micropterix calthella

What a perfect name. I thought I'd seen them somewhere before.

Thanks to Jim Wheeler of Norfolk Moths for the ID





Early Purple Orchid - Orchis macula





























Herb Paris - Paris Quadrifolia

Although in the picture above Paris Pentifolia and there was Sexifolia on Twitter recently.

Nothing to do with Paris but the Latin par meaning pair and the symmetry of the pairs of leaves and flower parts.

Tag CloudLandscape, HerbParis, DogViolet, PendulousSedge, GreaterStichwort, Bee-fly

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Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis



Large Bitter Cress - Cardamine amara



Crane Fly - Tipula oleracea















Marsh Marigold - Caltha palustris



Marsh Valerian - Valeriana dioica





Moss capsules ?



Rowan - Sorbus aucuparia





Black bog rush - Schoenus nigerians





Holly - Ilex aquifolium



New growth on the gorse.- Ulex europeus





Field Horsetail - Equisetum arvense









Guelder Rose - Viburnum opulus







Wood Sage - Teucrium scorodonia



Common Butterwort - Pinguicula vulgaris




Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva
Delightful orange furred bee.

Tag CloudViburnum, Rowan, Bee, CraneFly, CuckooFlower, Gorse, LargeBitterCress, MarshMarigold, Moss, BlackBogRush, MarshValerian, WoodSage, FieldHorsetail

Blackbird - Turdus merula





Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs





Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes

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