Common Blue - male ( Polyommatus icarus )









Small Copper - ( Lycaena phlaeas )









Marsh Orchids - Hybrids between Pugsley's Marsh Orchid and Southern Marsh Orchids although one of them might have bit of Common Spotted Orchid.

The top one may actually be a Pugsley's Marsh Orchid. Certainly all the flowers were largely facing one way.







Meadow Thistle ( Cirsium dissectum )











Keeled Skimmer ( Orthetrum coerulescens )





Cuckoo Flower ( Cardamine pratensis )





Yellow Rattle - ( Rhinanthus minor )





Ragged Robin ( Lychnis flos-culculi)









Spring Beauty - ( Claytonia perfoliata )






Greater Sundew ( Drosera anglica )

Tag CloudCommonBlue, SmallCopper, MarshOrchid, MeadowThistle, KeeledSkimmer, CuckooFlower, YellowRattle, RaggedRobin, SpringBeauty, LongLeavedSundew

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

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

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