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Had a gardening session this morning. Mainly cutting back grass to give other plants a chance. Tidying the bug hotel which now has a thatched roof :D A litter pick round the Field turned up one and a half sacks of rubbish - quite good - we sometimes get a lot more than that sadly.
Aselection of Nature's Bounty
 

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Also spotted a couple of butterflies

The one on the right was blue so possibly a small blue but not sure and it wouldnt open its wings except to fly away. The other is a Speckled Wood.
 

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At the risk of boring you - more photos from the Friends of the Fields Group. :D
I keep posting because we are working to preserve a little bit of "green history"

In today's session we placed some new signs to indicate the paths we have created through the small Woodland to the Orchard and the Field itself. Main Street is so called because when I asked the man mowing the main field if he would widen the entrance to make it more obvious and he managed, somehow, to get his mower almost the length of it - so it became wider than intended. The other names are self explanatory.
To add to the info the signs were made for us by BHF's own Morturn. Thanks for the contribution to our work.
 

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wonderful jan...well done to our mort in making those signs and well done to all the friends of the field for keeping this little bit of land history going..i know how hard you all work

lyn
 
Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing.
The last nice picture may be of Knopper Gall on acorn.
Thanks
Annie - who took the pics - was busy googling Oak Galls but I decided to post the pic anyway without waiting to find out. I didn't know there were so many different types of Oak Gall. :rolleyes: .
 
There is nothing on the paths they just lead to different sections of the Field.
Woodland Walk is beautiful in spring.
Orchard Way leads past the orchard (apples, plums, cherries, pears and we hope , greengage and damson). Plus a medlar.
Main Street was cut through wild raspberry canes and blackberry bushes).
 
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