A collection of photos from our walk on 29th April 2026. Enjoy…
29th April 2026
🔼 While some blossoms have bloomed and now are dying, others are just beginning to open 🔽 this holly is a joy to see!
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
Nature waves her yellow flowers to welcome the Spring 🔼 Here we have Broom, the ‘Plant-a-genet’ which a certain medieval family took as its badge and made it famous when they became kings 🔽 Buttercups glowing beside the water ⏬ Marsh marigolds hiding in the grasses
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 I was looking forward to finding Wood Anemones. Alas, I found but one. Too late (how dare they not wait for me!!!) 🔽 I must content myself with Ramsons.
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
Bluebells 🔼 with Ramsons 🔽 with Dandelion ⏬ going solo!
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔽 Fumitory, a wayside plant often found along the edges of arable fields
29th April 2026
The flyers…
29th April 2026
🔼 I beg your forgiveness for the blurry head of this Jay. But what chance of a better focus when the bird hides behind leaves and the wind decides to gust just as I click 🔽 A female large red damselfly, majestically coloured
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 Orange tip 🔽 Red admiral, worse for wear having over-wintered
29th April 2026
🔽 Of all the photos I’ve taken of Holly blues, this is only the second I’ve caught it on a holly leaf!
29th April 2026
That’s all for now, folks. A different environment next week with different subjects to attract my lens. Join me then
crispina kemp 
Awesome butterflies and flowers.
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Thank you, Sadje 🥰🥰🥰
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You’re most welcome
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🥰🥰🥰
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Gorgeous photos, C! Thanks for the bright sunshiney feeling! ☀️
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Such was the day! Makes a change
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I knew the Plantagenet family took their name from a flower, I believe Jeffery wore in his cap? But I did not know it was a tree flower- nor that it was yellow…. I am going to have to update my card catalogue of a brain on the origins of the name Plantagenet….
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Please be away, this is the knowledge I received but I don’t recall from where. So you might like to double check it first
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And it’s less of a tree, more of a shrub/bush.
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What a beautiful collection of plants – I especially love the Broom and buttercups and ghat solitary dandelion taking centre stage amongst the bluebells 🙌
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You’ve gotta love the dandelion. It’s not a weed. It used to be a cultivated veg. I love it. So flambouyant
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Yes it’s very special 👌
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A lovely trek 💜💜💜
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My pilgrimage. I’ll return again in autumn for the autumn foliage and the fungi!
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