by Rosemary Winnall | Jan 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Wyre Forest Study Group 4 Jan 2024 Winter Heliotrope – Petasites fragrans. Winter Heliotrope Petasites fragrans in flower, Tickenhill, Bewdley 4 Jan 2024. Only male flowers are found in the UK and so it spreads vegetatively. It flowers from November...
by Rosemary Winnall | Jun 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wyre Forest Study Group May/June, 2021 Pied Flycatchers in Wyre – It is good to know that Pied Flycatchers returned to the Wyre Forest again this year to breed in the nest boxes provided. Mick Farmer managed to successfully photograph a male collecting insects...
by Rosemary Winnall | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wyre Forest Study Group 9 March, 2021 Common Whitlowgrass – Erophila verna – I recently came across a large carpet of these tiny spring flowers growing on a dry bare trackway. These plants, only a few centimetres tall, flower and fruit by April, and are...
by Rosemary Winnall | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wyre Forest Study Group 23 January, 2021 SPRING IS COMING! – Spring is coming soon we trust, although winter is hanging on with more snow falling this week. But Great Tits are singing, Song Thrush males are proclaiming their territories and Winter Aconites and...
by Rosemary Winnall | Dec 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Wyre Forest Study Group 24 October, 2020 Holding On – I passed this Hazel tree growing near Dowles Brook recently and was reminded about the many difficulties we’ve experienced in 2020 when the ground seems to have been taken from under our feet and there...
