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

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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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