Warm and sunny.
Lunularia cruciata is a liverwort easily identified by its crescent-shaped gemmae cups. The close-up shows a few gemmae in the process of being distributed by falling raindrops.
Gemmae cups about 4 mm. across.
Mnium hornum grows all the way along the path above the ditch.
A few flower-heads of Shepherds' Purse were open at the entrance to the pathway.
In the stone circle I found a few Parmelia saxatilis lichens with striking orange patches in the thallus.
My initial reaction to this nestling corpse was that it was a young wood-pigeon, but I've had a good look at the claws and I think they might be embryonic talons, so maybe a very young Sparrowhawk? Breastbone about 10 cm. long.
