RXwildlife Sightings

A less windy day but with thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evening. Seawatching produced a Red-throated Diver and a Balearic Shearwater whilst first signs of migrants on the land included 220 Swifts, four Sand Martins, a Yellow Wagtail and a Sedge Warbler. A Hobby was also seen.
David Walker from DBO website.

Occasionally some plants grow with very enlarged and flatted stems, this is called Fasciation. For more read here.
Locally this happens to Spear Thistle, but today for the first time we have seen it in Viper’s Bugloss, in the photo below the main example is about 15cm across and the left hand stem only slightly flattened, normal stems are lower down.