Sunday, 2 June 2013

Seeing the Changes 577

In Oxwich, saw Common cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Osier (Salix vimalis), Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), Yellow rattle (Rhinathus minor), Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), Biting stonecrop (Sedum acre), sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias) and Southern marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) were all in bloom.Lots of flies (this may well be Empis tessellata) were about, with Agrypnus murina beetle, Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus), male Common blue (Polyommatus icarus) and Small blue (Cupido minius) butterflies.
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