1 x Peacock, 1 x Small Tortoiseshell.
Warm and sunny.
Lady's Smock, Cuckoo Flower, Milk Maids....what a lot of very different common names. This is Cardamine pratensis, one of the mustard family. As this is the sole foodplant of the Orange Tip butterfly in this area I expect to see them any time now.
Hartstongue Ferns are the first to throw up their new growth. I always think they look like eyes or snakes.
A mature capsule of one of the Grimmiales. The leaves are so tiny that they can hardly be seen with the naked eye. Seta about 1 cm. tall.
Two from the wall: Wall Rue (top images) and Maidenhair Spleenwort. The emerging growth of the Wall Rue has a bizarre shape.
Yellow Archangel is usually as escape around here and this cluster is only a few metres from the nearest house. I suppose the fact that the leaves reach the end of the year relatively unscathed by fungus or caterpillars is a good indicator of an introduction.
Two adjacent species from a concrete gate pillar. A Metzgeria liverwort (maybe Metzgeria conjugata). Top patch about 3 cm. across: close-up about 1 cm.
And this very short, compact moss. No id, yet. Setae about 5 mm. long.
A lime-lover in acid soil? Nope. A lime-lover on top of a stone wall. I haven't seen this flowering here, so I'll be watching this patch closely this year. A Cranesbill, but I'm reserving judgement until I see the flowers.
Later on the high heath, footprints that I can only make out as Hedgehog.
