Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) is one of the great glories of #TheBrecks in summer (including making a fine frame for a Roe Deer).
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5/7
Also along the Cut-off Channel: Dewberry (Rubus caesius), the more delicate cousin of Bramble, Hairy Rock-cress (Arabis hirsuta), Hairy Tare (Vicia hirsuta) & cinnabar moth caterpillars.
#Wretton #Norfolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #WildflowerHour #OurWorldIsWorthSaving
4/7
Along the Cut-off Channel & adjacent fields it is cudweed heaven with plentiful Marsh (Gnaphalium uliginosum) & Small (Filago minima) cudweeds, plus Biting Stonecrop (Sedum acre) & Yarrow (Achillea millefolium).
#Breckland #Wretton #Norfolk #Wildflowerhour @Britnatureguide 3/7
Good to find lots of Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) along South side of the Cut-off Channel - going E from Wretton, and plenty of Large Skippers (Ochlodes venatus) - here's a male (line on wings, bottom right) & female.
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2/7
Ash buds still deep in dormancy, unlike the Gorse which blooms undaunted.
The Jelly Ear Fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), so delicious in Chinese food, here on an old Elder trunk is long vanquished by the #Fenland wind.
Snoozing Gadwall on the Cut-off Channel.
#Wretton 5/7
Plenty of Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) roseates, droplet jewelled, in the lichenaceous #Breckland turf through which the Cut-off Channel slices, to the rasping calls of Egyptian Goose couples & distant pig squeals.
#Wretton #Norfolk #WildflowerHour #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 4/7
Roes round here vary from the oblivious to the downright complacent.
Pangle Drove #Wretton #Norfolk #RoeDeer #OurWorldIsWorthSaving 3/7
