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Slowworms in a Waterlooville garden

Photos by Adele Mallows of a slowworm in her garden.  The third picture she says 'is the slow worm squaring up to the plastic snake placed in the garden to deter cats. (This doesn't work, by the way).

Flowers of the woods north of Clanfield

the pictures are of yellow archangel, bugle, twayblade two early purple orchids, woodruff and yellow pimpernel.

Eagle Owl in an
Emsworth garden  -

8th May 2008.

Open Garden 5th May

On July 5th we returned to the garden of Robert and Jill von Westarp for an open garden.  The first picture is a general view followed by two pictures of the green winged orchids on their lawn.  One orchid gets a close up inspection and plants are sold.  The last picture was taken by Frances Sweeney (Emsworth & Westbourne News Correspondent) and shows Robert and Jill with Rosemary Webb.

Cuckoo pint and more orchids.

Hollybank Orchids

5 pictures of early purple orchids in Hollybank Woods and one of fallow deer - a long shot of part of a herd of about 20 animals.

In Clanfield Copses

These wild flowers were seen in the copses at Clanfield during the Saturday walks group's walk on 12th April.  They are from the left yellow archangel; early purple orchid (2); Goldilocks buttercup; moschatel; a very pink wood anemone and toothwort.

Red Kite over Hayling island

Seen over North Common Hayling about 11.00 on 9^th April.  Photo: Rob Hill

The left hand picture is a normal view of south moors but on the right in a photo form the opposite side taken by Viv Carrell the fields are thoroughly inundated.  The third picture, taken by Nik Knight  is of a dead rudd at Langstoen Pond.

Hollybank Woods early march

My trip to Hollybank Woods on 3rd March was to find the alpine squill reported by Ralph Hollins and seen in the first two of these pictures.  The o other pictures are of wood anemone, wood spurge one of the beautiful clumps of primroses at the site and King Alfred's Cakes fungi.

Weird Flowers by the Langbrook Stream

The first two are butterbur flowers and the next two giant butterbur.  Both these oddities grow on the left of the path that runs down by the Langbrook Stream near the point where the path open up into he fields of Southmoor.  The last picture is actually neither odd or by the Langbrook  Its summer snoflake which is growing in some long grass beside Mill Lane Langstone close to the end of the lane.