Thursday 26 June 2008

Foragers


The parties of mistle thrushes are already out over Blacka in their dozens foraging on the bilberries that have ripened. Most of the fruit has still some way to go but you can find purple berries if you're patient. The beds of bilberry are now swollen with new growth, about double the volume of a few months ago.
Bramble flowers are rarely named as anyone's favourite wild flower, but many a rose fails to achieve this level of beauty; they are of course from the same family.

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