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Wiltshire and sometimes Kent.
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Tim Osborne retweeted
Some #ClimbingPlants in N. Wilts. for the #wildflowerhour challenge. IDs provided in ALT Text. @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour
ALT Top row: Bush Vetch, Meadow Vetchling, Bramble, and Field Bindweed. Middle row: Tufted Vetch and Honeysuckle. Bottom row: White Bryony, Hedge Bindweed, Hop (male) and Wild Clematis.
Tim Osborne retweeted
This female Redstart was a lovely surprise on a farm on the Downs today. They don't breed nearby so she is our first southward bound bird of the 'Autumn'. People always go mad when I say that but birders consider southward migration as Autumn migration - yes I know it's June!
Excellent article by Matt Prior in current Birdwatch magazine, March issue 405. Let’s hope it draws attention to the catastrophic decline of this species. @mattthesparrow @WiltsWildlife @WiltsBirdClub @Natures_Voice
Sloes, Hips, Haws and Elderberries all looking magnificent this autumn for @wildflower_hour #Berries in North Wilts. @BSBIbotany @WiltsWildlife
Dwarf Elder or Danewort, Sambucus ebulus, Slaughterford, N. Wilts. Archaeophyte, “featured in English legend since at least Saxon times, introduced as a medicinal plant and for dye” @wildflower_hour @WiltsWildlife @BSBIbotany thanks to @TheJemster
More from Seasalter. Narrow-leaved Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Lotus tenuis abundant around the sea wall west of the Sportsman. @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany @KentWildlife
4 favourites from Seasalter, Frosted Orache, Dittander, Salsify and Hogs Fennel. @KentWildlife @BSBIbotany
One of the strangest Bee Orchids this season, found in SW France. It had three labellum or rather labella. I’m sure there’s a name for this mutation….
@EuropeanOrchids
A medley of wildflowers for @wildflower_hour with ‘first of the year’ Clustered Bellflower in local grassland, North Wilts and a pure white Knapweed and Marsh Cudweed from Sutton Meadows N.Wilts @nationaltrust @WiltsWildlife
More orchids from SW France, this time Ophrys scolopax, Woodcock Orchid showing variations, one beauty with white sepals. Charente Maritime. @TheJemster @EuropeanOrchids
Fly Orchids in South West France, three varieties in four photos. Near Jonzac, Charente Maritime. @EuropeanOrchids @TheJemster
Glad to see Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, having a good year in North Wilts woodland about a week ago. @BSBIbotany @WiltsWildlife
Not a Pink, but definitely pink, for @wildflower_hour Dog Rose (type), Rosa cania, looking lovely on a woodland edge in N Wilts. @BSBIbotany @WiltsWildlife
Wonderful to see Monkshood, Aconitum napellus, just coming into flower in North Wilts. Considered native at this site. Thanks to @TheJemster . @BSBIbotany @WiltsWildlife @Love_plants
Not at all HighUp regretfully but great to see the first, early I think, Early Marsh Orchids, Dactylorhiza incanata at Clattinger Farm this morning @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany @ukorchids
Superb variety of Chalk Milkwort Polygala calcarea colours in the Swanage area at the moment. @DorsetWildlife @BSBIbotany
Some nice Early Spiders at Saxon Field, Durlston today. Ophrys sphegodes. Numbers down above Dancing Ledge with many now gone over. @ukorchids @DorsetWildlife @BSBIbotany
A couple of new ones here for me, although not uncommon,Celery-leaved Buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus and English Scurvy-grass, Cochlearia anglica at Seasalter end of South Swale NR. @BSBIbotany @KentWildlife @wildflower_hour
