Hockering Wood SSI









Wood Sorrel - Oxalis acetosella









Wood anemone - Anemone nemorosa






Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta





Beech - Fagus sylvatica

Freshly creased








Unrolling fern






Hazel - Corylus avellana





Dogs Mercury - Mercurialis perennis





Violet - Viola raviniana





Wild Garlic - Allium ursinum





Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis







Wood Spurge - Euphorbia amygdaloids

Tag CloudLandscape, LilyOfTheValley, WildGarlic, DogViolet, DogsMercury, Hazel, Beech, Bluebell, Anemone, WoodSorrell

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording

A little fluffy
two little fluffies in fact


Moorhen - Gallinula tenebrosa

Tag CloudMoorhen, Landscape

Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita





English Oak - Quercus robur





Rowan - Sorbus aucuparia



Gorse - Ulex europeus

Tag CloudChiffchaff, Oak, Rowan, Gorse

Sedge Warbler - Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

Tag CloudLapwing, Willow, SedgeWarbler, FieldRecording

Tag CloudLandscape

Bluebell

Hyacinthoides non-scripta









Wild Garlic, Ransoms, Bear's Garlic

Allium ursinum

Tag CloudBluebell, WildGarlic

Tag CloudWrenSong, FieldRecording

A magnificent old oak just on the edge of the heath.

Tag CloudOak

Mixed Birch and Oak













Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta








Muscatel - Adoxa moschatellina

or

Town Hall Clock
I wonder if the heaven facing clock was there to help god tell the time?

Apparently the heaven facing flower has four petals whereas the other four have five.
Fascinating facts from
A Cabinet of Curiosities

Tag CloudLandscape, Spider, Bluebell, Moschatel

More a case of hearing

A very distant Grasshopper Warbler

Tag CloudLandscape, FieldRecording

Walking through the woodland early this morning was a sheer delight.

Song and sound from every where.

The best was the Willow Tit that started singing over my head.

Too quick for the recorder though.

A bit like this one but not quite so high pitched.

Tag CloudSongThrush, FieldRecording, Pheasant

Blackthorn

Prunus spinosa





Black Bog-rush

Schoenus nigricans

Tag CloudBlackthorn, BlackBog-Rush

On the beach



Gramborough Hill

Tag CloudLandscape, Sycamore, Song, MeadowPipit, FieldRecording

Tag CloudWren, ReedBunting, FieldRecording