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Photos from walk on Thursday 25th August from Dorchester on Thames to Berrick Prior & Berrick Salome

A grey day and a damp morning, so mainly pictures of berries and water droplets.

 

But first, I was fooled by this spiked apple “growing” on a hawthorn.(stacked photos x2)

Dioscorea communis or Tamus communis is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae and is commonly known as black bryony, lady’s-seal or black bindweed.

Coffee stop at Ladybrook Copse

Elder berries. Sambucus nigra is a species complex of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae native to most of Europe. Common names include elder, elderberry, black elder, European elder, European elderberry, European black elderberry and tramman. (stacked photos x20)

English oak leaves, one set dehydrated and dead

Just a drip

Birds on a wire (pigeons).

Lunch under a Rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia). Rowan berries

and a Rowan leaf

More elder berries

A sloe. Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) a small thorny deciduous tree with dark green, ovate leaves, and small white flowers in early spring, followed by ovoid, bloomy black fruits 1.5cm across. (A small blue planet?)

Brightwell Barrow, from outside Dorchester


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