Thursday, September 30, 2021

Nature Log September 2021 🌿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 4 Sept – Dog field.








Everything looking a bit tired and starting to seed. Lots of yellow flowers.

Gt willowherb

Tormentil

Buttercup

Restharrow

Chickweed

White clover

Comfrey

Burdock

Mayflower

Agrimony

Medic

Scarlet pimpernel (lots)

Purple loosestrife (by river)

Meadowsweet (by river)

Self heal

St John’s wort

Centaury

Thistle seeding

Small flowered cranesbill

Yarrow

Ragwort

Common fleabane

Blackberries

Swallows in the field still (2 Sept)

Brown hawkers in field and on river

Emperor dragonfly 

Swimming grass snake

Buzzard over the field

5th – Saw muntjac mooching from east side of field into middle pond area

7th – Kingfisher skimming the water

8th – 3rd beautiful day 26C. Emerald damsels in tandem and emperor

 

🇬🇷 13-23 Sept – Not a lot of wildlife seen during hols

Cormorant along the sea (not many)

Mouse with large ears and long tail by the bins beach

Herons on the rocks secluded shoreline

Scissor fish, saddled sea bream and other fish seen while snorkelling. https://www.explorecrete.com/nature/fish-1.html

Hermit crab

Buzards up in the mountains. Could have been something else but that size

 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 27 Sept – Dog field

Ragwort

Scarlet pimpernel

Self heal

Comfrey

Rest harrow

All on last legs

29 Sept – 2 buzzards and 2 red admirals dog field

Weather summary

Started Sept quite cloudy and cold

2nd week rising up to a nice 27C

🇬🇷 Windy days but mostly hot 30C

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Last week of Sept in UK quite mild 23C.

 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 16 October – Hatfield Forest

Saw badger and fallow deer on Forest Tracker course