Monday 21 March 2022

Blue Moor Grass (Sesleria caerulea) DIARY NOTES AND PHOTOS

 (Blog Index below)

Who does not love Blue Moor Grass? It is starting to show up again on Hutton Roof. It's such an attractive purple colour.

When I find it I like to look closeby to see if there are variants in colours which can usually be found. 


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass)
Photo: Hutton Roof


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over to enlarge
these varietal forms appeared as neighbours within a radius of one metre approx
Crag Foot, Hutton Roof 16th April 2019



 Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over to enlarge
Crag Foot, Hutton Roof 16th April 2019
"Regular Blue in flower"


 Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over to enlarge
Crag Foot, Hutton Roof 16th April 2019
(Pallid variety)


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over to enlarge
Crag Foot, Hutton Roof 16th April 2019
"Green variety in flower"


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over to enlarge
Crag Foot, Hutton Roof 16th April 2019

This photo (above) shows variations of Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass).  The photo above shows 1) A quartet placed side by side for comparisons 2) typical Blue Moor Grass with fruits, 3) A rarer lighter green version 4) and finally a very light version


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over photo to enlarge
Photo: 1st April 2017 - Hutton Roof


Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over photo to enlarge
Photo: 23rd March 2019 - Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT)

Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over photo to enlarge
Photo: 13th April 2019 - Holme Stinted Pastures
showing "now in flower"

Sesleria caerulea (Blue Moor Grass) Click over photo to enlarge
Photo: 13th April 2019 - Holme Stinted Pastures
showing "now in flower"


CHECK OUT MORE BLOGS BELOW

If you want the most up to date blogs about birding and vismig and other stuff please click over this link:

Autumn Bird Migration over Burton in Kendal 2009, 2010, , 2011,  2012, 2013, 2014,  2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,  2019, 2020, 2021
Early movement and Spring Bird Migration over Burton In Kendal. 2020, 2021, 
Monitoring our Swifts (Burton In Kendal - since 2010 - Check the summary for 2021 or any of the years previous histories. 

Merlin chasing Skylark, yet Skylark evades capture by clever tactic

Notes on Lapwings (3rd March 2021) Demise (local 1960s onward) and also Winter Roosting on Factory Roofs in East Lancs between 1980s and 2000 see below the links:

Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) and Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)

Northern Greenland Wheatear (Oenanthe o. leucorrhoa)

Fieldfare numbers of Wintering Birds almost non existent Sth Cumbria

Hutton Roof's Rinnentier (Rinnenkarren)

Arnside Naturalist party for Orchids 29th Jun 2021
My Lichen Diary
Herb Paris    Birds Foot Sedge
Gymnosporangium clavariiforme (Cedar Apple Rust fungi)
Elfin Saddle fungi - (Helvella lacunosa)
Black Bryony (Tamus communis)
The Gentians - both amarella and campestris and their current status on Holme Stinted Pastures (Sept 2021)

THE FLORA OF HUTTON ROOF
THE FERNS OF HUTTON ROOF
EPIPACTIS ATRORUBENS AND MORE (A STUDY OF RARE ORCHIDS)

12th Feb 2021 - Just starting to see new growth etc

Thr 11th February 2021 - Early movement and Spring Bird Migration over Burton In Kendal.

Tues 9th February 2021 - Intertwined

17th Dec 2020 - Finding a new Polypodium cambricum on HRoof Crags

Thursday 19th November 2020 - Nice stroll or wander with fabulous wonders and my December copy for the local magazine - SEE BLOG BELOW THESE LINKS.....

CHECKING OUT SOUTHERN POLYPODY AND BLACK SPLEENWORT PLUS FUNGI, FUNGI AND MORE FUNGI - Click here

Another recent blog on"The best moments of vis so far this year - click here

 2020 Visible Bird Migration records 

"Strange Polypodium Interjectum found in Burton (17th Oct 2020)

Cloud and Sunrise photo blog - click here

The new Orchid book "Britains Orchids" by Sean Cole and Mike Waller - please click this link for details.

Varieties of our local Hutton Roof Gentians and the reason for the 50/50 Purple and White, plus my research survey results. Plus "Upland Enchanters Nightshade (circae x intermedia)

 More Autumn Gentian photos (2020) can be seen here

Dark Stemmed Hybrids (Epipactis schmalhauseneii - helleborine led)
Primula vulgaris and Primula veris (Primrose and Cowslip)

Rb Fotoman Close Up photos

2020 Visible Spring Bird Migration Counts at Burton In Kendal
 Dryopteris sub-montana (Rigid Buckler Fern) on Hutton Roof, Cumbria
 Polygonatum odoratum (Angular Solomons Seal) on Hutton Roof, Cumbria.


Holly Ferns on Hutton Roof and how they are fairing
2019 a exceptional year for the berries
A very special Orchid - A branched Epipactis atrorubens
Polypodium Cambricum (7th Feb 2022)

My Nature Blog diaries (from 6th December 2021)



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