#wildflowerhour

[scrappapertiger]

This #wildflowerhour I decided to illustrate three flowers I looked at very closely this week. #illustration #watercolour #wildflowers #botany #naturalhistory (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxX5SrPgEAH/?igshid=apshfhbzwmqv

[visitcrestedbutte]

Happy wildflower season! #visitcrestedbutte#crestedbutte #wildflowers#wildflowerseason#crestedbuttewildflowerfestival #crestedbuttecolorado #crestedbuttelifestyle #wildflowerlove#wildflowermeadow #wildflowerphotography #wildflowerhour #columbineflower #coloradostateflower #columbineflower #flowers #wildflowerlove #wildflowersofinstagram #coloradoinstagram#coloradogram #fieldsofflowers #crestedbuttebound https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf6qpBQL0TQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[somebogwitch]

Tufted vetch

[thesmaku]

I haven’t been here in many month but back in 2019 the field was ablaze with wildflowers, making this a truly wild sunrise. . Do you know where we can find wildflowers in our parks? . Nikon Z 7 with 14-24mm f/2.8 at 14mm, f/10, 1/13sec. ISO200 . #torontosunriseseriesbytaku #wildflowers #wildflowersofinstagram #nikonambassadors #etobicoke #humberbaypark #cityofto #bestcitybreaks #sharecangeo #petapixel #yourshotphotographer #natureinthecity #urbannature #torontoparks #ncc_ccn #wildflowerhour (at Humber Bay Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1Tq_ILl_O/?utm_medium=tumblr

[greenjohnpaul-blog]

Silene flos-cuculi (ragged robin) at @ScienceMuseerne recently! An explosion of pink that reminds me of #FlowersThatLookLikeFireworks! #PlantsAreCool #Botany #BiologyIsAmazing #BotaniskHaveAarhus #wildflowerhour #DanskFlora #dknatur (at Væksthusene og Botanisk Have, Aarhus)

[natureritualwheel]

Sea Campion, Sand Point, Kewstoke, Somerset rewilderart.com #wildflowerhour #wildflowers #wildflower #spring #may #seacampion #plants #nature #natureritualwheel #sandpoint #kewstoke #somerset #wildlifephotography #coast #coastalflowers #rewilderart #flora #flowers #flower https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYFgjaha_Y/?utm_medium=tumblr

[philipjorourke]

I love the autumnal colours captured here in digital. #nature #naturalhistory #plants #35mm #slide #wildflowerhour #Ireland #irelandphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CFu9HUjHtFE/?igshid=a7pe6s6i2zhc

[thegnc]

On the lake #lakelife⚓️ #prettydays #wildflowerhour #lifeisgood❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CFflBi2jGRt/?igshid=t1968nfbq5dj

[isabellelambert1975]

Herbology hunters

Excitingly, we have our first Herbology hunters! Eloise, 8, and Arlo, 5, found all five of the flowers on our #herbologyhunt spotter sheet for January and are the first to complete the hunt.

Hi @herbologyhunt, a chickweed in flower on the way home from school today means Eloise (8) and Arlo (5) have finished their January #HerbologyHunt! pic.twitter.com/vEGpp4bSww

— Hester (@pittypomm) January 22, 2018

Arlo told us that his favourite flower was gorse, because it has the prettiest flowers and is very spiky, while Eloise liked the chickweed best because of its leaves and flowers.

There’s still time to download this month’s spotter sheet and have a go with your children or class:

from #wildflowerhour http://www.wildflowerhour.co.uk/blog/2018/01/23/herbology-hunters/

[dansnaturepictures]

4th January 2022-Part 1 of 2: Portland Harbour: Black-throated Diver, Razorbill, Rock Pipit and more

Today on my first of four days leave we did one of the trips we most wanted to this week off, going to Portland. We went to the harbour first to scan the sea for birds and moved onto Portland Bill later in the day. I got eight more year ticks today and even saw a new bird at the bill as my next post mentions. This makes my year list my second highest any of mine have been after four days.

I saw my first Pheasant of the year in Dorset on the way in, seeing another Buzzard well on the journey. Then after a toilet stop at Ferrybridge where we saw loads of Cormorants on the water as hoped today I saw my first Kestrel of the year, Portland is always a hot spot for them. I took the first two pictures in this photoset of the quick Ferrybridge stop. 

At the harbour as seen building on the way there and at home earlier there were some wonderful sky scenes above with some really breathtaking cloud formations and shades of colour. It was such a beautiful scene which looked amazing to see with the sun poking through nicely as well on what was a really memorably chilly day out. I took the third-sixth and final three pictures in this photoset of views here today with great sky scenes. 

At the harbour we enjoyed seeing two species that are the staple of Portland Bill visits so were targets there later but I was very happy to see at the harbour for the first time in 2022, with a close view of a Rock Pipit and honking Ravens soaring nicely over. Among Cormorants we were thrilled to pick out the pretty plumage of a few Shags, another first for the year for us today. We were also thrilled to spot three winter plumage Razorbills, around the ships and out into the harbour a quintessentially nautical sight. After the wonderful sighting of one at Fort Cumberland in Hampshire on Saturday to help kick our year off with a bang, sightings of four of this long standing member of my list of favourite birds meant I’ve averaged one a day so far this year which was a quirky thing to enthuse me and something to really celebrate with a bird I have long loved, and not something I’ll be able to say often!

I liked noticing rock samphire and rosemary here, I took the seventh picture in this photoset of the former there was a fair bit of it. The time off we always aim to have in January and is one of the most enjoyable times of our year is a tradition for us since I began working to have the days to go a few places to lay the foundations and really get our new year list started off with a bang by seeing different species, and compared to previous years the noticeable thing this year is I am still having a bit of the posts about the trips where I am mentioning flowers I’ve seen which I am loving. Last year in the opening days I had had that awakening of 2020 from the mid-late summer onwards where I began to really learn flowers so much more but I knew whilst in spring 2020 I had that deeper flower interest coming I didn’t have the PlantNet ID app which was the revolution for me to learn flowers more among other tools such as #WildflowerID during #WildflowerHour on Twitter so I suppose last year I needed that spring period which I got of learning many more flower species. So I now have had a year of knowing what will be out when and a little bit more of what’s what’s, still lots to learn too, so this year even if they’ve not been in flower its been shells of them I am at a stage of noticing a lot of flowers/plants at this time of year. With me taking part in the New Year plant hunt with some flowers/plants I have been lucky to see in flower as I said on Saturday this will stick in my mind as a January week off about flowers too. 

The time at Portland Habour today ended well when we were over the moon to spot a diver far out. It had the reptilian figure of either Black-throated or Red-throated Diver both of which we had seen here before and with a few views of it we were able to make out it was a Black-throated Diver. There had been one around here lately we saw from the the Dorset sightings site. I was happy to get some views of this smashing species and it’s one of my standout species of the year so far. We have had an incredible two years for this bird as two years and three days ago it was a new bird for us when seen here on New Year’s Day with a pair we saw, and we saw one a second time only a few weeks ago at Hayling Island’s Sandy Point in December. It was rewarding to see this bird so soon into this year.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Rock Pipit, Shag, Raven and Black-throated Diver of the year, three of my favourite birds the Razorbill, Little Egret and Great Crested Grebe the latter two common ones at home I had not seen here before, lots of Cormorants, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Oystercatcher, Red-breasted Mergansers well and Carrion Crow.

The story of the rest of the day is in my next post shortly.

[scrappapertiger]

It's cold and sleeting outside. Perfect opportunity to curl up with a hot drink, revise botanical terminology for my plant ID course (Identiplant), and practice cross-hatching. I realised recently that I've never learnt how to cross hatch, so it's really satisfying now to try to figure it out properly. #botany #illustration #botanicalillustration #identiplant #wildflowerhour #procreate #naturalhistory (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvE27aMg4f1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xxzniuq2uegx

[sonomaoak]

Repost @mckenna.fiona Pennyroyal carpet all a buzz with bees and a Brown Argus 😍🐝🦋🌸 —————————— #pennyroyal #bees #brownargusbutterfly #butterfliesofinstagram #flowersofinstagram #wildflowerhour https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wY4F_hLe9/?igshid=11q16gya0u3ss

[foldthesky]

Should I post more black and white pictures? #flowers #flowerpic #flowerstagram #bnw #naturephotography #nikon #macronature #macro_brilliance #macro #flores #fleurs #botanicgardens #botany #blackandwhite #bnwphoto #blancoynegro #noiretblanc #brilliance_of_nature #wildflowerhour #wildflower #florsilvestre #contrast #igscflowers #ig_flowers #macrophotography #nikond7100 #photooftheday #fiori #flora #flowerphotography #flowerstalking

[indiebookbanter]

#WildFlowerHour #Bluebells #Hereford (at Marden, Herefordshire)

[greenjohnpaul-blog]

Tetragonolobus maritimus (dragons teeth/kantbælg) at @ScienceMuseerne blomsterne sidder 1-3sammen i bladhjørnerne, de er 25-30mm lange, kronen er lysegul og der er 9 sammen menvoksede og 1 fru støvtråd #PlantsAreCool #Botany #DanskFlora #dknatur #wildflowerhour #BiologyIsAmazing (at Væksthusene og Botanisk Have, Aarhus)