For today's #wildflowerhour The Hairy violet (Viola hirta) now covering the chalk grassland of #NewTimberHill for me the beginning of the flowering season ..
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Lots of hairy red bums on Hairy Violet
on the now violet-covered chalk grassland of
#NewTimberHill
#wildflowers
#bumblebees
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The need more help, understanding & awareness of their needs of good stands of trees & grassland for their foraging and far more generosity to be just be left to live and breed in peace.
Below a positive view last spring into one of the rookeries in #NewtimberHill
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Ivy-clad Hawthorn gloaming hollow
into blaze of Hazel stained glass skies
on darkly damp and jewelled fungi floor
towards the hills
#NewTimberHill
#nativewoodland #photography
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Thank you Rob .. as they are the loves of my life .. insects I mean!
So here's just one from me for a belated #InsectsThursday, the tiny and rather rare #Silver-spottedSkipper living out its short life on #NewTimberHill in #Sussex
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Great pic of Kestrel outside its comfort zone!
I see them on the ground in wet weather when they're hunting for worms .. which they do surprisingly often ..
from a damp day on #NewtimberHill taken after I'd watched this female spying the ground from the branch of a tree for a good while ..
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Really lovely tiny flower especially when acting as perch to very young Meadow grasshoppers.
in #NewtimberHill chalk grasslands
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A #Harebell growing in a dung-enriched #anthill in the chalk grasslands of #NewtimberHill, highlighting & not disguising I hope the vital ecological importance of the #rabbit & the #meadowant in shaping the diversity of our #chalkgrasslands.
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her.
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My favourite hill was dressed in Blue today .. with a few other colours laced into the tapestry .. refreshed after the recent downpours.
Gave me that special September grin. 😊
#DevilsbitScabious
#chalkgrassland
#NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands given beck to her.
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Here's my offer for #ColourADay with almost a half of the theme #OrangeSun with Small Heath butterfly from #NewtimberHill
#butterflies in #chalkgrassland
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Female #Adonis, down in undergrowth on #NewtimberHill, probably mated, her eggs developing or looking for the foodplant, Horseshoe vetch, so to lay them under its tiny leaflets.
This #butterfly is strongly associated w old #chalkgrassland w #anthills.
Nature needs her chalk lands returned to her!
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Lots of the white form of the "Sore throat" plant aka #Squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica), a member of the Bedstraw family & v easily overlooked, in the #chalkgrasslands on #NewtimberHill at the moment.
A chalk & limestone restricted plant.
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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Small Copper competing with Common Blue for attention perhaps ..
#butterflies in the #chalkgrasslands of #NewtimberHill
Lots of both of these butterflies about now.
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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Why are so many #Kestrel hovering & hunting over the #chalkgrassland & #scrub on #DevilsDyke & #NewtimberHill?
Because they are teeming with life from all kinds of #insects such as #crickets & #grasshoppers to #lizards & #smallmammals.
Nature needs far more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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An #Adonis male that has had a few near escapes feeding on #Eyebright & another so far un-pecked, feeding on #Round-headedRampion in the old #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill teeming with insects, birds, small mammals & Common lizards.
Nature needs far more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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The hedges around #NewtimberHill dripping with sloes, hips and haws ..
a great food store for our birds & small mammals this year ..
ans sloe gin lovers 🟣💜
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I think I need to buy some gin soon!
#Blackthorn heaving with sloes on #NewtimberHill
What a year for the #Rosefamily!
#Rosaceae #Prunus
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#Silver-spottedSkipper thriving in the old #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill.
This lovely little skipper can only be found in certain suitable areas in the Chilterns, the North & South Downs and ONLY chalk grasslands.
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her.
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The last of this year's orchids.
Like a tiny spiral staircase reaching for the sky.
#Lady'sTresses common in the #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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#AdonisBlue male on #Devil's-bitScabious in the old #chalkgrassland at #Newtimberhill today.
#butterflies #botany
Nature needs more of the chalk lands returned to har!
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Meadow grasshoppers meeting .. difficult to avoid as the #chalkgrassland is teeming with all kinds of hoppers and crickets .. just below the Hoary Plantain & the Adonis Blue and Silver-spotted skipper butterflies.
#NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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Living close to the #SouthDowns gives me the opportunity to walk in #chalkgrassland & in August I often get to observe some stunning #butterflies.
On just a short walk around #Newtimberhill today Chalk Hill, Adonis & Common Blue were out in numbers but the star 4 me was #Silver-spottedSkipper ⭐🦋
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Lovely to see some of my chalk grassland friends on #Newtimberhill in Sussex on Friday:
#Round-headedRampion, #Dwarfthistle, a mass of #Harebell and # #CommonResstharrow
#wildflowerhour
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Softly drooping #YorkshireFog
hardly stirred with weightless pair
therein hang a future generation
of #CommonBlue & many minutes
passed & then the parting.
Each slowly turned & eyed
the other but no cigarette.
She left first with work to do
He sat a while trying to look cool.
#NewtimberHill
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The lovely #SmallGreenPotBeetle (Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis) on #RoughHawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) often encountered in the #newtimberhill chalk grassland.
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