Tag: oaklands park
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Alder leaves
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Christmas presence
I’ve been trying for a while to get some pictures of the heron and today I got lucky. Photos taken at 8.45 on Christmas morning.
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Winter dawn
The view from my bedroom window at about 7.30 am.
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Hornbeam catkins
European Hornbeam or Common Hornbeam – Carpinus betulus
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Sun god
On Sunday morning I couldn’t sleep – I got up to watch the sunrise and decided to go for a walk after breakfast. I left the house before 9 o’clock and went very quietly down to the park. Tom told me on Friday that a buzzard roosts in the tree on the island – I’ve…
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Little red flames
Hazel catkins (Corylus avellana) 5 March 2009 All rights reserved * * * * * She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold. The high collar, and the inside of the cloak, was lined with dark fur. Beneath…
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Little Trotty Wagtail
LITTLE TROTTY WAGTAIL by John Clare (1793-1864) Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain, And tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again, He stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly, And then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry. Little trotty wagtail, he waddled in the…
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Three-cornered garlic
Keble Martin, in the 1969 edition of The Concise British Flora in Colour, describes this plant as “Naturalized in woods, etc., in W. Cornwall, S. Wales, S.W. Ireland and Guernsey”, and the flowering period as April to June. Since he spent much of his life in Devon it seems likely that it wasn’t found here…
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Ash twigs
‘The ash’s branches grow upward, dipping down towards their ends but then rising once more so that their tips reach toward the sky. The buds of the ash are its most distinctive parts. They are sooty black, covered in hairs, and have s phallic appearance. As the sap rises in spring, ash buds begin to…