July Wildflowers
I wasn’t sure how many ‘new’ wildflowers I would see this month, many of the ones I have recorded in my previous posts for the last few months are still flowering and I wanted to have the new ones I spotted. July didn’t let me down and I have seen
Hambledon hill
Heading towards the end of July already, I can’t believe it, we had heavy rain yesterday this has been welcome to the garden, the landscape and wildlife. This morning on Sunday 26th July after the rain I decided to head up to the slopes of Hambledon Hill. I have in
Fontmell Down
Thursday 22nd July and with the likelihood of a warm day I decided to head up to Fontmell Down fairly early to see what Butterflies were about, particularly hoping to see a Chalk Hill Blue. I have never seen one before. The first wildlife I saw was a Kestrel in
Under Hambledon
Into July and a nice morning so I headed for one of my usual haunts, a walk underneath Hambledon Hill. Always enjoyable and I never know what I will see. The flowers are starting to look lovely on the sides of the hill, most stunted with grazing but plenty for
June Flowers
Well another month in this unusual year is done and dusted (where are they going!) so a couple more montages of the wildflowers I have seen and taken on my local walks for June. I’m sure I have missed some and many are still flowering from the previous months. I’m
Hambledon Hill
On the 26th June I decided to walk to Hambledon Hill in the morning I wanted to see if there were any Bee Orchids flowering yet, I’d been looking for sometime and was beginning to think I wasn’t going to see them this year after the dry hot spring. The
Martin Down
For my birthday on 23rd June my husband asked me what I would like to do. It was promising to be a hot day so we headed to Martin Down on the Dorset/Hampshire/Wiltshire border, (it’s just inside Hampshire so managed by Hampshire County Council) to go Butterfly watching for a
Hambledon Hill
On Friday 5th June I went on an early walk under Hambledon Hill, we had some rain the day before and it was little cloudy and chilly. I’m hoping that some more Orchids particularly Bee Orchids are showing. On my way around the base of the hill on a narrow