1 Apr 23

Broadcroft Butterfly Reserve, Broadcroft Quarry Lane and Bumpers Lane

This afternoons walk should have been a lot longer, but with the threat of rain moving in fast from the northwest, I had to return home pretty smartish.

So on a very short walk, the best I could do was 5 Meadow Pipits overhead, one Chiffchaff singing and a pair of Greenfinches in the butterfly reserve.

Also about were a few Honey Bees and Chocolate Mining Bees on the flowering Wild Cherry along Broadcroft Quarry Lane.

And the oddity of the day a multi headed daffodil.

Birds Recorded:
1 Buzzard
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
5 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff (singing)
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
2 Greenfinch

A Common Buzzard sat on top of a Sycamore Tree in Broadcroft Quarry Lane. Well it was......

.........until it saw me and Ted.

Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)

One of the many Honey Bees on the flowering Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) blossom along Broadcroft Quarry Lane.

Plants:

Bunch-flowered Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta)

To find this on the one day of year where practical jokes are abound, I really did.......

..........think this multi-headed daffodil was a good windup. But it is real and is a Bunch-flowered Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta). It also goes by the name of Bunch-flowered Daffodil, Chinese Sacred Lily, Cream Narcissus, Joss flower, Polyanthus Narcissus. More on this unusual daffodil Here.

Ted:

Hmm, well we were in a hurry to get home to keep dry.