Judith Barnard

A Small White spotted in a hedgerow of Harlestone, Northants @BedsNthantsBC @missingmass1

@SteveCaple4 You can sort of get that view from the new road 😄

Lovely, long-distance view of Kingsthorpe Village, Northampton.

A frog 🐸 and its frogspawn down at Froggy pond @froglifers @missingmass1

A walk around St. Lukes churchyard, Duston looking at the early spring flowers: snowdrops, hellebores, crocus, primroses and winter aconite

Pleasant walk around Salcey Forest today, with first grass snake, mating toads, clumps of Coltsfoot and the place where the Moschatel grows... @missingmass1

Lots of clumps of Coltsfoot in Salcey Forest, Northants for @wildflower_hour @missingmass1

One of my favourite places in Salcey Forest, Northants, where the Moschatel grows @wildflower_hour #WildflowerHour @missingmass1

Medicinal plants in the walled garden of Delapré Abbey, Northampton @DelapreAbbey @BSBIbotany

@SteveCaple4 I remember it well and the Chemist’s shop next door, now also a charity

The old Post Office in Duston Village, nowadays, a charity shop.🥰

Coltsfoot and Wood Anemone in my mum’s care home garden for @wildflower_hour @missingmass1

Narcissus tazetta (bunch-flowered narcissus) spotted on the island of Jersey 🇯🇪 this week for @wildflower_hour @missingmass1

Germander speedwell and Lesser Celandine out in Northampton today for #wildflowerhour @missingmass1

40+ containers thrown into one of our gateways at Althorp. All were full of used and contaminated engine oil, some with oil leaking out. This awful crime never seems to end, if anything it seems even worse. If you see anyone fly-tipping call 999. Conservation@althorp.com

Blackthorn seen for the first time this spring, Northampton @missingmass1 for @wildflower_hour #WildflowerHour

Snowdrops @missingmass1

Crocus, almost wild for @wildflower_hour @missingmass1

@jwood_t @wildlifebcn Beautiful and amazing cluster 🐞

A "loveliness" of over 30 7-spot Ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata) overwintering in a pyramidal formation on a rather wobbly old Purple Toadflax stem in the garden.🐞

@fookat @ForestryEngland Sounds bad 😔

@BarnardJudith @ForestryEngland Yes, the far end, but they’ve pretty much attacked all the edges of the paths.

@ForestryEngland are destroying Hazelborough Forest 😪 Lots of Sallows gone so doubt there will be many Purple Emperors around.