Beautiful Bird Cherry, Prunus padus, beside the Oast House at Bough Beech. 🤍

Musk Storksbill, Erodium moschatum, showing how it gets its name! From a (no doubt well fertilised with dog wee) area of rough ground behind a building in Hoblingwell Recreation Ground.

This is why I haven't been on social media much!

I've been horrified by what we found about Natural England pausing designation to SSSIs - and the consequent loss of nationally important sites for nature to development:

wildjustice.org.uk/unprotected-...

Broad Beans do seem to get about! I've seen them occasionally on road verges. Along with other means, the Atlas 2020 account says that they might sometimes be bird dispersed.
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

🤣🤣 Genius!

Ooh, I've just looked up all about Mozart's Starling!

What a lovely photo.

Ah, thanks Steven.

Thanks Jo.

The last of my photos from Sinah Common, Hayling Island (for this trip anyway, I'll be going back!).

Thrift (Armeria maritima), Sea Campion (Silene uniflora), Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus minor), Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides) and Springbeauty (Claytonia perfoliata).

I really think my photography skills are taking a nose dive atm!

Cheers, I am a bit of a failed perfectionist!

Thank you Tony!

I would love to have a pet Starling.

I've just realised that these are all really rubbish photos. 🙄

Bur Chervil, Anthriscus caucalis, at Sinah Common, Hayling Island.

Just realised that the Small Copper is on one of its larval foodplants, Sheep's Sorrel, Rumex acetosella. There was certainly enough of that around! (Other larval foodplants are Common Sorrel and occasionally Dock).

Well that may be so, but it still looked a bit shifty.

Hi, you may know this by now, but that's Musk Storksbill, Erodium moschatum. If you use the hashtag #WildflowerID when you need ID help, you will get a quicker response!
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Some of the beautiful Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, in the dunes at Sinah Common, Hayling Island. There was a glorious display. 😍

Oh do go, you'd love it! I've been meaning to visit for ages, and since I was in Chichester on Saturday singing in the Cathedral with one of my choirs, we stayed overnight so I could visit yesterday.

There were several Small Coppers patrolling the dunes at Sinah Common, Hayling Island yesterday. A Whitethroat looked a bit guilty hiding in the branches, but the innocent Green-winged Orchids were happily sunning themselves out in the open.

You get bonus points for that!

Yes, it can occur in very pale pink or white-flowered forms.

Yes, it can occur in very pale pink or white-flowered forms.

Hi Imogen, yes, that's Herb Robert, Geranium robertianum.

It looks like a beautiful piece of jewelry.

Ah thanks! I had a lovely few hours there. There are a few more posts to come!

Yes, that's right!

Yes, looks like Field Pansy, Viola arvensis. But the tips of the top petals do look slightly purple washed, and from the photo the petals don't look obviously shorter than the sepals, so there is perhaps some influence from Wild Pansy, as the two hybridise and can then back-cross.