Tuesday, 15 July 2008

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It comes to something when my first Small tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urtica) is a road casualty in Loughor rather than a nettle nemesis! Having said that, Beech (Fagus sylvatica) mast are starting to appear in Bynea and regular Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) ripening. Traveller's joy or Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) was in flower in Loughor.

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