Following a colourful dawn today we decided to visit Warnham Reserve for lunch and a walk. There were plenty of Speckled Woods, the only butterfly we saw. Six Hebridean Sheep have been grazing the meadow since early August. Ripe blackberries are everywhere, and acorns have formed.
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| Greenfinch top left, juvenile Greenfinch bottom left, Goldfinch on right |
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| Heron on Tern's nesting platform |
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| Speckled Wood |
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| one of the dipping ponds |
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| bulrushes Typha latifolia |
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| Bog rhubarb or Giant butterbur, Petasites japonicus |
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| Pyralid moth |
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| Hebridean sheep |
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| Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria |
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| The London Plane in the car park is a hybrid of the American Sycamore and the Oriental Plane |
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