Our first stop was very local, recording the wild flowers locally for a Plantlife survey.
Yellow Rattle, these are great plants to have if you have a wild flower meadow. By sprinkling these seeds your wildflowers are more likely to grow as it helps suppress the grass as it is semi parasitic.
Lesser Stitchwort.
Heath Bedstraw.
Fern possibly Lemon Scented.
Bush Vetch.
Cow Parsley.
Cow Parsley
Hogweed
Leaf Beetle Chrysolina fastuosa
Germander Speedwell.
Next stop was Stranraer Harbour for lunch. Watched a tern diving in the entrance to the harbour. There were about seven large Thick Lipped Mullet close to the harbour wall.
On to Stranraer Community Woodland to do a BTO Bird Atlas Survey.
Golden Raspberry, perhaps a garden escapee.
Dog Rose.
Beautiful colours in the meadows.
Roe Deer down by the burn….
Buttercups and grasses.
Small Heath Butterfly.
Scarlet Pimpernel.
Small Copper Butterfly.
Field of Buttercups.
A beautiful male Yellowhammer on the wire. This is a great place to see them and many other birds including Swifts!
1 comment:
A lot of wildlife and plantlife on your last two posts Valerie,excellent pictures.
I'm sure there's a decent length walk around the three lochs for our walking group,just haven't knitted it together yet.
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