Damatic weather for counting orchids in Kingsdown.
77 species found in the lawns of a nearby housing estate - quite marvellous.
You know you're in good quality chalk grassland when there's so many botanists' thistles you can't sit down.
##wildflowerhour
Upright Brome pollen contributing to hay-fever suffering.
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Had a quick walk around the estate first #lawnflowers #wildflowerhour.
The contractors haven't cut (first time).
All kinds of nice things - including 3 Corky-fruited Water-dropwort.
In praise of "ordinary" plants - Rough Hawkbit and Smooth Hawk's-beard.
#wildflowerhour
A fine reward for habitat management on a disused road - a Lizard Orchid pops up.
#wildflowerhour
Nearly 600 Duke of Burgundy butterflies counted in Kent
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
Saunders' law: "There is no gap in a window so narrow that a fly cannot find a way in.
And there is no gap so large that it will ever find its way out".
Decades of work by Butterfly Conservation, Natural England, farmers, landowners and volunteers have helped the endangered species increase dramatically across the county
