#wildflowerhour Greater Celandine and Bramble in flower in West Sussex during the week.

#wildflowerhour Greater stitchwort flowering in West Sussex earlier this week.

London E1, Wapping/Shadwell area-an Edward the 8th postbox. Not too many of these about. #postboxsaturday

Wood avens flowering in Friston Forest, Sussex this week.

#PostboxSaturday An 'anonymous', i.e. no cypher, postbox in Eastbourne, made by Handyside.

Devil's bit Scabious on the Eastbourne Downs on Saturday #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour Dandelion on the downs near Eastbourne today

#wildflowerhour Two from the Eastbourne Downs today. Hogweed and Greater knapweed.

Yarrow flowering on the Knepp Estate, W Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour

Two butterflies seen today at Wolstonbury Hill, West Sussex. Meadow brown and Small blue.

Tormentil flowering at Broadwater Warren today #wildflowerhour

Yellow pimpernel in Broadwater Warren, E. Sussex today #wildflowerhour

Bramble flowering earlier this week in Park Corner Heath, Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Plenty of oak trees flowering in Sussex this week. This tree had several currant galls on both the blossom and the leaves! #wildflowerhour

Field Maple flowering this week near Hastings, Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Greater stitchwort flowering in East Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour

Red campion this week in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

My first Grizzled skipper of the year spotted today on the South Downs near Horseshoe Plantation. @southdownsnp.bsky.social

On the South Downs near Eastbourne. Blackthorn flowering with a Speckled wood butterfly thrown in for good measure. #treeflowers #wildflowerhour

Still plenty of Lesser celandines around in flower. This one has a bonus pollinator, a Melanostoma sp. hoverfly. #wildflowerhour

Flowering Cow parsley is becoming more noticeable now. This one from near East Langdon, Kent. #wildflowerhour

Salix sp. flowering this week near Newhaven, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour #Treeflowers

Seeing more dandelions flowering now in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Plenty of Wood Anemones out this week in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Plenty of Bee-flies recently in East Sussex. Yesterday, (not great photos, but you can see the wing spots), I saw my first Dotted bee-fly at Lullington Heath. Today, a better photo of a Dark-edged bee-fly. These were in abundance in Abbots Wood. @southdownsnp.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Green alkanet in flower in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Blackthorn flowering today on the South Downs, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

Partial solar eclipse today, using binoculars and a bit of paper to view it!

Lesser celandine in East Sussex Woodland last Thursday. #wildflowerhour

Wood Anemone flowering in East Sussex Woodland near the Kent border last thursday.

Ground Ivy today at Pulborough Brooks, West Sussex #wildflowerhour

Taken on the phone camera, so not going to win any photography awards, but here's my first definite sighting this year of a Dark-edged bee fly, (Bombylius major) today in Rowland Wood, East Sussex. Will iRecord it.

Dog's mercury, just about flowering near Arlington, E.Sussex yesterday. #wildflowerhour

Dandelion near Arlington, E. Sussex yesterday. #wildflowerhour

Common green shieldbug, (Palomena prasina) on a leaf in the garden the other day. This is in its brown colour form, having overwintered. It will soon regain its green colour.

Lesser celandine, one of several seen flowering today in East Sussex. #Wildflowerhour

Not too long before bee flies start to appear again! This one was from Fore Wood, East Sussex last year

Good to see dandelions flowering yesterday in Seaford, East Sussex. #dandelions

A female Eristalis tenax hoverfly on a sunny wall of the Parish church of St. George in Crowhurst, East Sussex today. Females of this species overwinter in crevices in walls, but can emerge if temperatures are high enough.

One of two White-tailed Sea Eagles seen at Pulborough Brooks, W.Sussex today. This one was walking about on the ice!