On This Day 24 July 2019.

Comma

24 July 2019.

I am now so far behind updating my park blog, I have been many time but not had the chance to put the photos on the blog. It might have to be a winter thing... getting all my photos sorted.

At the moment we are having a bit of a heat wave, like we do I went out in the midday sun to see the butterflies.

Good numbers of white and brown butterflies, but not landing to ID. I think Mainly Green-veined white, Meadow brown and a lot of Ringlet. Really good numbers of what seem to be Small Skippers with just a few Large. Did see to Comma's , they are much more obliging and will satay for a photo.

As past posts are not on here yet I have been on a bit of a mission to try and ID as many of the Dock plants in the park, Broad, Curled and wood are the main three. But have discovered there are more called Clustered, Fiddle, and up North we can get Northern Dock. I have been photographing and learning about the different seed shapes, which help with ID.

Due to the heat there were very few birds about, and just a few flowers.

Cleavers (Galium aparine)

Wood Dock (Rumex sanguineus)

Broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius)

commonly known as bitter dock, broad-leaved dock, bluntleaf dock, dock leaf or butter dock,

Lime, small-leaved (Tilia cordata)

NEED TO CHECK

Could be confused with: other limes and hybrids. It is possible to tell true species apart from the underside of the leaf. Common lime (Tilia x europaea) has tufts of white hairs in leaf axils whereas in small leaved lime these are rusty red. Large leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos) has hairs all over the underside. Common lime is a hybrid and is rare in the wild in the UK.

Lime nail gall mite

Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

Small Skipper butterfly

Grass: Timothy - Phleum pratense

Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

Ringlet Butterfly

 With 12 British Willowherb's in the family, some are easy to recognise like the Great Willowherb. 

I photographed this one as it looked a little different to Hoary and Broad-leaved WH. 

I need a more detailed photo of the flower, to help with ID.

Comma Butterfly

 Canadian Fleabane (Conyza canadensis)

Found on the old gravel car park.

Fleabane doesn’t demand much of its habitat: it likes gravel and sand but its size varies with the nutrition in the soil from a few-centimetres-high dwarf in poor places to even a metre (3.3 feet) in more fruitful places. A large plant has many capitula and produces a lot of seed. All in all the species is noticeably flexible, and it can germinate in spring or any stage of the summer: this is the key to its success. As an annual which cannot handle competition it certainly favours open habitats, but these are abundant around urban environments.(LINK)

Curled Dock - Rumex crispus

Broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius)

Small tortoiseshell Butterfly