Erika is one of our volunteers who help to maintain Filnore Woods. She went back to the woods on Sunday, after walking in the snow the day before, to see what a walk in the frost would be like. The following photographs show what she found.
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Frosty Filnore Woods, 3rd March 2024.
I found a female hazel flower. They are separate from the male catkins, a little way up the twig and are a tiny red spiky octopus-looking thing. This awaits pollen produced on the catkin to blow its way.
There are buds of blackthorn, new shoots of birch, frosty ferns (hart's tongue), moss, thorny thistles ....
Whilst in the woods we saw a Bull Finch, a Gold Crest, a Song Thrush, some Long Tailed Tits and Gold Finches. This was in addition to our friends the Dunnock, Robins, Blackbirds, Blue Tits, a Magpie and Pigeons.
all photos by Erika Booth
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