Wild flowers in May

I am trying to catch up on the blog.. too much going on!! 

I wish I had done this throughout the summer as it makes a good pictorial of what flowers we have seen during May.   It is not complete, as I have missed out Greater butterfly orchid and Fragrant orchid, but they might appear in June's photographs.  

First Wood bitter vetch 

Wood anemone 

Tormentil

Speedwell 

Silverweed

Red clover

Primrose

Pignut

Milkwort

Marsh marigold

Lousewort

Lesser celandine

Lady's mantle

Heath spotted orchid

Dandelion

Daisy

Cuckoo flower

Burnet rose

Cotton grass

Bluebell

Forget me not

Ragged robin

Burnet rose and Bluebell

Early purple, Bluebell, Primrose 

Bloody cranesbill and Heath spotted orchid

Bird's foot trefoil

Marsh marigold

Not a flower - Painted lady butterfly 

Lousewort 

Butterwort

Thrift and Crottal

Thrift 

Bladder campion

Thrift and Scurvygrass

Primrose and Celandine

Dog violet 

Early purple orchid

Lousewort and Mountain everlasting 

Back on the farm

Back on the farm the Farmer is busy getting everything ready for lambing.  

The ewes were scanned a month or so ago and marked with different colours according to the number of lambs they are carrying.  The older ewes and the hill ewes expecting twins were all kept to one side and put in a field on their own.  The hill ewes expecting singles were put back to the hill.  The Cheviots and Zwartble ewes were put in another field and this week the young gimmers expecting their first lambs were separated from the others as they are going to come into the cattle shed and be looked after away from the watchful eye of the Hooded Crows and other large birds looking for easy pickings at lambing time.

The winter work on the cottages is almost finished, and plans are already in the making for next winter..  Looking back on the winter, it seems to have passed very quickly.  We certainly have not had as many storms as we usually have and the wind generation on the turbines is down quite a bit as a result!  But we are not complaining as it has given us some lovely weather and we so appreciate the longer days.

March moments