Monday, 12 August 2024

Wild Times

 We have been blessed with another crop of lovely new members joining Mythago this year. Purely by chance I met one of them separately at a talk being given about Sussex butterflies a few months ago. This has got us chatting about our shared love of nature and the beautiful things we've been lucky enough to see over the years. Although she's lived in the district for a few years, she's a Londoner so there are many places she doesn't yet know about. I offered to show her around our local nature reserve a few weeks ago and we finally made it happen on a dry and sunny afternoon last week. A couple of relaxing hours spent watching a family of Great Crested Grebes and then trying to remember [not always successfully] the names of the wild flowers we saw😊





I asked online what those strange red blobs are....most likely to be Willow Bean Gall Sawfly. 


Another trip to see one of the nature spots on her patch is in the pipeline.

Arilx


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1 comment:

  1. Polyester Princess12 August 2024 at 18:50

    My paternal grandfather was a great lover of nature and taught me the names of all the wildflowers we passed on our walks. That was 50 years ago and some of the names still come to be unbidden when I come across wildflowers, even if I haven't seen them in years. Can't help you with the strange red blobs though :-) xxx

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