A Year in the Valley
Discovering the flora and fauna in a small square of Portmellon Valley
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Today in the Watermeadow
The reed canary grass is growing fast. There is hardly any HWD apart from a scrawny specimen on the island, just in front of the weeping willow. Las year we had a few pockets of it on the right-hand side. Little Venice is more visible this year – still very soft and muddy, turfed with…
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Today in the Valley
One final picture of the valley to compare with this time last year. What do I notice? A slightly different angle, but otherwise broadly similar, with drifts of HWD taller than the reed canary grass. All seems to be at about the same stage as last year.
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Meadow Plant Bug (Leptopterna dolabrata)
So, here it is! The final observation post of the blog. It is one year tomorrow since my first post. So, I went out for a ‘final’ walk round the watermeadow this evening, in variable weather – part mizzle, part watery sunshine – and spotted this… A meadow plant bug. It’s probably a nymph. The…
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