A walk to the meadow down by the Swere and into the BBOWT reserve nearby. A more traditional day, with few flowers to be seen - the further from the village the fewer flowering weeds, which we counted at the new year. Even the hazel catkins were just forming. Instead clouds of fieldfare, a coal tit, a couple of buzzards. A small flock of lapwings flew over.
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| Ask keys |
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Woolly Thistle
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| Coal Tit |
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| Traveller's Joy |
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| Fieldfare |
In the Cutting, again nothing in flower, but a delightful showing of Western Polypody, and several mosses which I have yet to try to identify. There are 3 Polypody ferns in Britain, which look rather similar and they hybridise, but the hybrids are sterile. As this had lots of spores it is not a hybrid even though some of the characteristics of the fern were tending towards Common Polypody.
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| Sori |
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| Spores |
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