The forestry track which I walked today was lined with yellows. With the gorse dying back, the main yellow is from the newly-flowering broom - seen to the right in this picture - while the gorse, now a fading orange, can be seen in the distance. However....
....not all the broom is a bright yellow. In the left bottom of the picture of the track is this, a rare wild broom with orange-red flowers very similar in pattern to....
....the bird's-foot trefoil usually called eggs and bacon.
One short section of this particular track is host to a plant which we've only found in a couple of other places - a yellow pimpernel - while....
....this little plant is even rarer than the yellow pimpernel, being, as far as I have found, the only wild strawberry plant in this part of the woods.
My return journey took me past the lower rabbit field where....
....a rabbit collective has developed a warren in the middle of the field. It would seem to me that the rabbits feeding here are wide open to attack by the buzzards and kites that are nesting in the pine plantation not two hundred metres away, but perhaps a wise bunny has negotiated some sort of agreement with the local raptors.
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