OPEN-AIR DIARY 



SEPTEMBER 



DATE 



A new grass-snake's 



1 Hop-picking begins, 



slough. 



2 Teal arrive. 



3 Flowers of red bartsia, marsh red rattle, 



catmint. 



4 Larks and pipits gathering on ploughlands. 



Fumitory flowers. 



5 Flowers of ivy-leaved speedwell, common 



sorrel. 



6 Flowers of yellow cow wheat, grey field 



speedwell. 



7 Flowers of green field speedwell. 



8 Black-bryony leaves become yellow and white 



and bronze. 



9 Wood sorrel flowers. 



10 Antler moth, flounced rustic, dark sword 



grass. 



11 Wood-pigeons at their nests. 



12 Wheat sowing. 



13 Flowers of water figwort. 



1 6 Sallow moth. 



17 Flowers of purple loosestrife, great bindweed, 



autumn lady's tresses. 



18 Flowers of field bindweed, mountain speedwell. 



19 Flowers of smooth hawk's beard, foxglove, 



eyebright. 



20 Flowers of fleabane, bur-marigold, stinking 



chamomile. 



DATE 



21 Flowers of ragged robin, wall hawkweed, 



common hawkweed, hairy hawkbit, rough 

 hawkbit. 



22 Cinquefoil flowers. 



23 Flowers of spring water starwort, ivy-leaved 



bellflower. 



24 Autumn-sown wheat sprouts. One chaffinch 



sings. 



25 The first gossamer. Flowers of ivy-musk 



thistle, spear plume thistle, clustered 

 bellflower. 



26 Painted lady butterflies come to the blue 



Michaelmas daisies. Flowers of Canterbury 

 bell, wild sage, buckwheat, curled dock. 

 Hazel catkins noticeable. 



27 Flowers of Scotch thistle, black knapweed, 



harebell, henbit nettle, great snapdragon, 

 hedge-woundwort, marjoram, common hemp 

 nettle, wood sage, red goosefoot, saltwort, 

 common persicaria, broad-leaved dock. 



28 Larks sing and roar. Chiff-chaffs and willow- 



wrens sing. Poppy, ragwort, white bed- 

 straw and succory flowers. 



29 Flowers of tansy, wild chamomile, mugwort, 



seaside plantain, white goosefoot, sea 

 wormwood, mountain groundsel, brook- 

 lime. 



30 Flowers of field scabious, small scabious, 



hemp agrimony, golden rod, black bind- 

 weed, great water dock. 



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