A survey of Berwick Old Brick Yard on Sunday morning produced a surprise total of four or five purring Turtle Doves, including this bird sat out in the open on a telegraph wire and then sailing over the woodland.
Ok, you might have to take my word for it.
One or more Cuckoos called from various directions, and a Bullfinch sang (ok, squeaked) near the railway line, as it did during the last survey. I’ve seen and/or heard Bullfinch here on each of the four occasions I have visited this site since December.
Lots of activity from commoner birds – several male Blackcaps singing and females darting around with food, and high numbers of young Great Tits and Blue Tits. Also a couple of Jays, three Great spotted Woodpeckers, a Green Woodpecker.
However, drew a blank again on Nightingale – have they abandoned this site, as they appear to have abandoned Ludlay and Arlington Reservoir up the road?
A couple of plants – the first is, I think, a Common Spotted Orchid, of which there was just a single spike.
but I’m not sure what this one is:
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I’m no expert but I think this may be Yellow Loosestrife.
Many thanks Ed.
Just like Hedge Woundwort, I’ve noticed this plant everywhere since seeing it at the Brick Yard. It’s all over the herb garden at Firle allotments, which I go past everyday!
Funny how ‘the dam breaks’ after the first identification of something that turns out to be common. Something similar happened with spotted flycatchers when I was growing up – took me years to find my first one, then realised they were in our garden all summer long.