Following Martin Harvey's post last week about some excellent plants he'd seen very close to where I live in south Buckinghamshire,I finally had a chance to get out this morning to go to Lodge Hill SSSi to look for Meadow Saxifrage, a plant I'd not seen before. It wasn't a great day for botanising, an overcast morning with the stiff cold wind, but they were still there in full flower, about 30 flower-heads in total.
I also found the Shepherd's-needle Martin had found too. This is a scarce plant in Bucks too, but one I'd seen before at College Lake.
A few other interesting finds including this rather magnificent Drinker larva.
Finally, a plant growing by a bridleway through a field of presumed winter wheat, which I think is Borage (Borago officinalis), a plant I'm sure I've seen before, but having checked is not on my list. Unless anyone tells me it is something else, it is on my list now!.
Found a couple of galls and a barkfly, which I've not had time to ID yet, maybe more on that later!