My daily constitutional took me to the wide open spaces of St Andrews Park this morning. In the meadow area there were a couple of flowering
Common Field Speedwell plants, their delicate blue flowers a pleasure to see. Nearby there was a very tiny fly probably belonging to the family
Sphaeroceridae or the lesser dung flies, whose larvae feed on rotting vegetation. On another leaf was a very small snail which might just be a very young
Garden Snail so nothing particularly exciting. A queen
Red-tailed Bumblebee zoomed past but was too quick for my camera. She was my first of the year.
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| Common Field Speedwell |
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| Sphaeroceridae |
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| Possible Garden Snail baby |
Back in Montpelier, where the railway footbridge meets Hurlingham Road, another Speedwell was in flower. This was
Ivy-leaved Speedwell with flowers much smaller and paler than the Common Field Speedwell I saw earlier.
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| Ivy-leaved Speedwell |
The walls around Montpelier are now festooned with
Ivy-leaved Toadflax, now very common but originally imported from Italy.
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| Ivy-leaved Toadflax |
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