Snippets of Wealth (2nd May 2019) Swift/Angular S.Seal/Bugle/Herb Paris/Sp Sandwort/S.Cinquefoil/F.Madder/Birds foot S.

Thursday 2nd May 2019 - Main Street, Burton In Kendal

2030hrs - our first Swift has arrived back in the village and can currently be seen gracing the skies above the Memorial Hall.

Burton Swift Bird Study Group Blog

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Thursday 2nd May 2019 - Slape Lane and Lancelot Clark Storth (lowest)

Birds in Lancelot included a couple of singing Blackcap, one Chiffchaff plus another one on Slape Lane, and several Willow Warblers.

Ajuga reptans (Bugle) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) Hutton Roof on 2nd May 2019

Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Pickles Wood, Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT)

Minuartia verna (Spring Sandwort) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) Hutton Roof on 2nd May 2019

Sherardia arvensis (Field Madder) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT), Hutton Roof on 2nd May 2019

Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris) in Pickles Wood now in flower (see photo), also saw a nice little population of Ajuga reptans (Bugle). Found a new small area showing half a dozen plants of P. Odoratum (Angular's solomon seal). Checked on the Minuartia verna (Spring Sandwort) which seems to be doing OK with occasional small pockets here and there. Also another small population of Sherardia arvensis (Field Madder). Lotus corniculatus (Birds Foot Trefoil) starting to come through in leaps and bounds. 

 Potentilla verna (Spring cinquefoil) (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) bottom on 2nd May 2019

 Potentilla verna (Spring cinquefoil) (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) bottom on 2nd May 2019

 Potentilla verna (Spring cinquefoil) (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) bottom on 2nd May 2019

 Potentilla verna (Spring cinquefoil) (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) bottom on 2nd May 2019

Potentilla verna (Spring cinquefoil) (Click over to enlarge)

Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) bottom on 2nd May 2019

The really good news today just had to be the amount of Spring cinquefoil.  Although today most of the flowers were deflated and looking draggled like they get with rain and dull light, but the quantity was amazing and I found lots of metre sized pockets over a 40 metre area which I guess would represent over 200 flowers at least.  This is without doubt the best I have ever seen them over a ten year period. Usually we would be lucky to see 50 flowers.  

 Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) Hutton Roof

  Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) Hutton Roof

 Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge

Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) Hutton Roof

Another Lancelot "star" is just starting to show with its fabulous "clawed foot" flower the Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge).  I found a few but in a couple of weeks there should be hundreds and to think this species was on the red data list until recently. Although rare throughout the country, it is quite local on Hutton Roof and I have so recorded 12 separate sites on Clawthorpe Fell, Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT), Burton Fell and on the Common and this involves over 1585 plants. 

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Thursday 2nd May 2019 - Dalton Crags and Hutton Roof

Robert Ashworth's nature records from his visit on Hutton Roof yesterday (1st May 2019)

A Lesser Whitethroat on Burton Fell, a returning Common Redstart on the "Bonk" in the lower part of Dalton Crags, 5 singing Garden Warblers from various points.

(Orchid mascula var:albino) Albino Early Purple Orchid in Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) is now partially open but all orchids in the close area are showing signs of being nibbled on the ends of the leaves