May Meadows

[puddleshark]

A mild morning, still and grey. The hawthorn in blossom. Cuckoos calling in the rushy streamside meadows by S. Farm.



Yellow rattle and buttercups and unnamed orchids in flower, and the grass growing furiously.












Common Spotted Orchids? Early Marsh Orchids? Southern Marsh Orchids? A hybrid? I've given up trying to guess.




Common Carder bees (Bombus pascuorum) busy about the yellow rattle.

A tiny flash of orange catches the eye:


Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).



On the way back, crossing from the damp streamside meadows to the higher sandy meadows bordering the heath, bluebells flowering among the grasses, pipits flying up from the gorse bushes.




Pipit!


The swallows are back.

Comments

[sartorias]

All that green and color!

[puddleshark]

The month of May - the green is dazzling...

[kaishin108]

All the photos are so lovely and a swallow, how great.
I love those blurred photos. :)

[puddleshark]

Thank you!

When the swallows return, it really feels like summer is on the way. But I hope we get to enjoy spring a little longer. I love this time of year. Everything is so green.

[nikonf3]

Goodness this is pretty.

[puddleshark]

I have given myself a bad case of hay fever from all the grass pollen... and I don't care! The meadows are just so beautiful at this time of year.