Gallery

1 Dolycoris baccarum Sloe Shield Bug	2 Wildflowers Ox-eye Daises, Red Clover, Lady's Mantle, Common Sorrel, Field Scabious, Ribwort Plantain, Meadow Buttercup and Common Catsear	3 Primula veris Cowslips.	4 Anas platyrhynchos Mallards occasional visitors to the pond.
5 Pilosella officinarum Mouse-ear Hawkweed - a typical acid grassland species.	6 Primula vulgaris Primroses - the Prima Rosa - the first flower of spring.	7 Sunhill House in 2006	8 View of the pond taken on 10th June 2006.
9 View of the pond taken on 10th June 2006.	10 Scleroderma citrinum Common Earthball - an inedible (but not poisonous) fungus commonly found on acid soils.	11 Boletus appendiculatus A large toadstool that can be found in the surrounding grassland.	12 Clavulinopsis helvola A beautiful fungus again associated with acidic heathland soils.
13 Polygonia c-album Comma - so called because of the white comma markings on the underside of its hindwings.	14 Enallagma cyathigerum Common Blue Damselfly - a pale specimen, possibly freshly emerged.	15 Polyommatus icarus Common Blue - a pair mating in the grassland.	16 Thelephora terrestris Earth Fan - a fungus growing on the roots of a diseased Lime tree.
17 Sarcophaga carnaria Flesh Fly - this beautifully coloured fly is attracted to light coloured clothing and white paper.	18 Cherry log that has been thoroughly tunnelled by Stag beetle larvae.	19 Amanita rubescens The blusher - rather dehydrated specimens.	20 Boletus chrysenteron Red-cracking Bolete
21 Robin's pincushion. a growth on a rose bush caused by the gall wasp Diplolepis rosae.	22 Rose Hips.	23 Russula brunneoviolacea Showing signs of being nibbled by slugs.	24 Pyrrhalta viburni Guelder Rose Leaf Beetle
25 Galium palustre Marsh bedstraw	26 Sanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet.	27 Knautia arvensis Field Scabious.	28 Filipendula ulmaria Meadowsweet.
29 Lysimachia punctata Dotted Loosestrife.	30 Malva moschata Musk Mallow.