Thursday 15 June 2017

The linnet

Photographed this lovely lady at work, where she and her fellow are nested in a thick hedgerow somewhere.

We've been making good progress with our campaign for a greener campus; our unmowed area has turned out to be almost twice as large as we first envisaged, and has rewarded us with bee orchids, self-heal, birds foot trefoil and enough white lover to cover a football pitch.

The red tailed bumblebees love it.

Next week we seed our second wildflower meadow, and we have some herbs to plant in a herb garden we extended. Looking forward to it.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 15.06.17


6 comments:

  1. Fabulous! I'm so envious of your bee orchids. Have only seen them once in the wild growing on chalk downland. Such amazing plants.

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  2. THank you both, I'm able to take more photos at work now, very pleased with this

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  3. So good to hear how well your wild flower meadow is doing. Bee Orchids are so beautiful :)

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  4. Always a treat to watch a Linnet... Thank you for your kind comment on my blog. Great news on the meadow front. You should tweet Springwatch, who are promoting these meadows at present...

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