For various reasons, a new grand-daughter being the nicest, I haven't been out around our local woods and meadow for a good few weeks and wow it has turned green!
We popped out this afternoon for a quick walk and the meadow looked lovely with lots of different grasses. As the breeze caught the heads the colours changed from green to brown, orange and red which, along the vivid yellow of the buttercups and the cerise common vetch against the blue sky, made for a beautiful natural canvas.
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| Rampton meadow |
The woodland was a tangle of green and white with the initial flush of cow parsley I saw a few weeks ago now starting to seed and become swamped with clumps of sticky weed. Clear tracks through the mass of stems giving away wildlife corridors.
Some tiny moths and butterflies flew across from one small sun spot to another, unidentifiable without a close up view or photo but a faded peacock - maybe from last year - rested on the path.
We could hear the birds - chiffchaff, blackbird, tits and thrushes but the canopy above our heads is now too thick to make them out and only two young squirrels showed on the low branches of the big oaks half way into the wood. We have also seen a squirrel in the garden this week. They have been over in the garden beyond ours over the winter but this was a fairly young one who has found our peanut feeder.
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| Common vetch |
Also in the garden this week we have had squabbling starlings both parents and juveniles and sparrows feeding their flapping youngsters. I also watched a female blackbird with a large slug on the grass. It spent some time wiping it and then her beak backwards and forwards on the grass - presumably to get rid of the slime - before finally pecking it into submission and carrying it off.
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