The unseasonably warm weather continues with daytime temperatures in the middle 20's. Heavy overnight dew makes spiderwebs particularly obvious and visible.
Some of the webs are made by 'money spiders' and are often referred to as patch webs. Others can be found in dead Thistles as 'tangles' and yet others particularly in Bramble as 'hammock' webs.
With the coming of autumn there is the start of fruits and seeds with a wonderful show of Wild Rose berries in Nursery Wood.
Also in Nursery Wood there was a lot of disturbance caused by a small flock of Ring Necked Parakeets arguing with Jackdaws probably over hole nesting sites the next year. This is not a great photograph taken against the light but they are something which we will probably have to get used to on the Park.
And finally for this post, I thought that there was a new type of plant on the dry gravelly soil near to the gravel pit but closer inspection shows that it is a type of gall made by a gall midge on Germander Speedwell. The midge larva causes the terminal bud to grow and make it look furry. Inside there are a number of cocoons where young midges are developing.
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