Elders 12 on the 12th with 12 of us! It was a huge day, of many elements:
- A wren nesting in a tree near our parachute captivated
- Pond observations including hundreds of frogs
- Mining bees beside the pond
- Sorting out cushions and taking them home to wash
- Visit of Suffolk Wildlife Trust testing the pond for Great Crested newts
- Grasses
Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner. My notes here. She reads it brilliantly on Audible.
Mining bees
There are around 67 species of mining bee, making it the largest bee genus in Britain. They are called solitary bees because they do not form colonies
Grasses
- Yorkshire Fog
- Colonial Bentgrass
- False oat grass
- Mouse barley
- Orchard grass
- Poverty Brome
- Rough Bluegrass
- Rye grass
- Soft brome
- Timothy
- Wild oat
- Hairy oat Grass
Other flowers
- Birds foot Trefoil
- Black medick
- Bristly Oxtongue
- Spear Thistle
- Suffolk Wildlife Trust measuring for Newts
- Bugloss
- Musk Mallow
- Guernsey Fleabane
Our sheet, with Hugh and Virginia giving it a good bash
Kinda Elders in the woods 