Today's walk, in sunny but blustery conditions, took us through Specked Wood where, despite the dappled shade under the trees which might have encouraged them out, there was no sign of any speckled wood butterflies. By comparison with most other butterfly species the speckled wood has done fairly well here this year.
Many of the trees are now shedding their leaves, led by the rowans, some of which are almost bare-branched already, and most of which have a good crop of berries.
Look carefully and some of summer's flowers. are still to be found. This is a little flower, not more than 15mm across, which is a favourite of mine. It goes under the odd name of tormentil and is unusual in that it has only four petals.
Also, surprisingly, in bloom amongst the tangled grasses is....
....heath milkwort. This was the only one that I could find which was still in flower.
Devil's-bit scabious is still in bloom along the damper edges of some of the tracks as are....
....the last of the foxgloves.
Last, but by no means least, a few remaining daisies are in flower, this bloom all alone in our back garden.
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