We took a drive down to Wetherden in darkest Suffolk on Friday. Belinda’s Mum and Dad are buried in the churchyard there and she wanted to tidy the grave up a bit.
While she was doing that I wandered around the churchyard to see what I could find. Snowdrops are now out in full force everywhere but my first Lesser Celandines of the year together with Honey Bees and a huge queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee were the most obvious things. I scrutinised the church walls finding the attractive moss Grey-cushioned Grimmia and Powdery Twig Lichen together with the common but lovely yellow lichen Variospora aurantia.
I then turned my attention to a gnarly old wooden bench close to where Belinda was and was delighted to find it covered in a variety of lichens including 2 that were new to me - Sordiate Greenshield Lichen, Flavoparmelia soredans and Abraded Camouflage Lichen, Melanelixia subaurifera as well as Net-marked Parmelia.
Earlier, as we left the house my first hoverfly of the year - Spotted Thintail, Meliscaeva auricollis was on a shrub in the front garden.
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