#blueweed

Bumble butt !! Common carder bee on my viper's bugloss, or maybe more so in it ?

(Bombus pascuorum, female imago, worker on Echium vulgare)

In West Virginia, a resolution was filed to attempt to rename our highest point, Spruce Knob, after our current President.

Black cherry buds

28/06/2021-Lakeside and home: Sky scenes, views, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and flowers

I took the first picture in this photoset of the front garden, and second, third and fourth of dandelion, bird’s-foot trefoil and white clover on the grass beside Lakeside Country Park on my lunch time walk. I also saw a Meadow Brown butterfly here which I did on Friday evening that was quite battered with a lot of the wing missing. I remember on Friday this making it look bigger in flight. It was interesting seeing it in the same area again. I tweeted a picture of this on Dans_Pictures tonight.

And I saw another butterfly species we saw well on Friday night going down the path through the two fenced off areas the star butterfly of this place for me the Marbled White flitting around over the grass nicely in a sunny patch of a changeable day of weather with black clouds still looming. Black-tailed Skimmer dragonflies were present here and more so by the lakes. It was interesting to see some red leaves on the trees the other side of the meadow area on the banks beside the steam railway track. 

I took the fifth, sixth and seventh pictures in this photoset of a view over the lake, a female Mallard that whizzed past closely and an entertaining scene of a Black-headed Gull on the buoy then the quite big group of Greylag Geese all swam into the water and settled beside it as though it was giving them a speech on a podium. I enjoyed some great time with the Greylag and Canada Geese and their young looking so close to being adult now which was interesting and allowed me to celebrate our local geese after a real smashing walk for seeing geese yesterday at Petersfield Heath Pond with three species. 

It then became a memorable walk for flowers today as I took in heath spotted-orchid just still going by the lake with my first selfheal one I saw here last year at this site this year nearby which I tweeted a picture of too. Walking round towards the visitor centre and the flowerbed type area I got splendid views of knapweed as shown in the eighth picture in this photoset with an oxeye daisy and I also saw meadow crane’s-bill well and some St. John’s-wort which was lovely. This foray into flowers today was headlined by first viper’s-bugloss aka blueweed of the year one of the first flowers I learnt with the PlantNet app this year my best friend for flower ID a charming and unique flower I find I tweeted a photo of this one too. 

A thundery evening with lightening too when the rain did cease at times created some pretty and memorable sky scenes, I took the final two pictures in this photoset of some as well as some more which I tweeted. I hope you all had a nice Monday.