Fast-moving May 2022

 OUR AIM IS TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE HABITAT IT PROVIDES FOR WILDLIFE ALONG THE RIVERSIDE

Our Meet this May was held on Sunday 22nd in order to avoid the mix of extended holidays and preparations for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

It was a very fine day, fresh after rain on Friday morning. Birdsong, new fledgelings, flowers, trees in leaf and fruits forming as soon as blossom was over on the fruit trees made the setting perfect for spring fast becoming summer. The abundance of wild flowers and trees with blossom so far this year give us hope for a good summer -at least more fruitful than last year!

The sequence of wild plants flowering this year has left no gaps, benefitting the sequences of visiting invertebrates, especially bees.

Buttercups cover every verge and unmown area of grass this spring

provided the sun reaches the ground. Some years we hardly see any....

but they are there nevertheless.

Fortunately they were not trodden down or obscured by litter in most places but the task of protecting all wild flowers remains - maybe there is a hint of a new attitude towards wild living things however. We hope it lasts.

See next post for our June meet held on 26th June 

Our next scheduled meet is on Sunday 31st July 2022