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

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A little fluffy
two little fluffies in fact


Moorhen - Gallinula tenebrosa

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Blackthorn

Prunus spinosa





Black Bog-rush

Schoenus nigricans

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On the beach



Gramborough Hill

Tag CloudLandscape, Sycamore, Song, MeadowPipit, FieldRecording

Tag CloudWren, ReedBunting, FieldRecording

Greenshank
A superb adult male White Wagtail
At least 6 Wheaters
and
a
Yellow Wagtail
or
two.

Sand Martins clearing out holes on Gramborough Hill

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Tag CloudSwallow, Avocet, FieldRecording

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Jack Snipe flew up from the dish on the fence line.
Sand Martins cleaning out their burrows,
Parachuting meadow pipits

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Tag CloudReedBunting, FieldRecording, Landscape

Strumpshaw Wood







Grasshopper Warbler reeling











Coltsfoot clock



Coltsfoot



Willow





Field Maple

Tag CloudLandscape, Reed, Coltsfoot, Willow, FieldMaple, Cetti'sWarbler, WillowWarbler, Cetti'sWarblerSong, TuftedDuck

Tag CloudLandscape, Wren, Shellduck, MarshHarrier, FieldRecording, GreatCrestedGrebe, Burdock, Willow, Pheasant, BlackHeadedGull

A glorious morning

Marsh Harriers displaying.

Visibly mad Cetti's Warblers.
A quick rush of song and then move on to the next perch.

Tag CloudLandscape, Song, ReedMace, Coltsfoot, FieldRecording, BlackcapSong

Afon Dysynni - Bryncrug





Aberdovey Beach



Hard fern - Blechnum spirant









Feather Moss - Thamnobryum alopecurum















Wilson's Filmy Fern - Hymenophyllum wilsonii







Opposite - leaved Golden Leaved Saxifrage Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Ferns, Mosses, Lichens and Liverworts under the Sessile Oaks and Sycamores






Dolgoch Falls














Budding Sycamore



Wood Sorrel - Oxalis acetosella









Sessile Oak - Quercus petraea








Navel Wort or Penny Wort - Umbilicus rupestris









Red Kite - Milvus milvus

At the base of Bird Rock



The only place in Europe that has an inland breeding colony of Cormorants. Plus Ravens, Chough and Herring Gull.










The RSPB reserve at Ynis - hir

Reclaiming a 19th Century conifer plantation and returning it to a bog.






View back to the Dovey Estuary.

The local Ospreys arrived just as we were walking along the track.

Lots of Sand Martins also feeding over the marsh.

Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler singing around the site.
Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Curlew, Teal.

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