Look low

The Conseil General has authorised the positioning of panels along the roadside verges and we have some outside this village.  They are to protect flora, especially orchids that are growing on the verges and roadside banks and to prevent the wrong sort of vehicles damaging the soil that provides the correct conditions for the array of flora to grow.

On my walk to the river I spotted the parasitic Purple Toothwort in fairly wet ground and was upset to find that some were being trodden on, probably inadvertently.

There were a number of other common wild flowers, including Ransomes Wild Garlic.

Wonderment was when I had to keep stopping to listen to the hundreds of nightingales singing their hearts out to the cuckoos and hoopoes.  Bliss!