

Late Flowers and pollinators
There are few flowers remaining from the splendid show we had over the summer and competition for the flowers can be fierce as shown by the two Common Carder bumblebees and single Honeybee mimicking Hoverfly on one Welted Thistle flower. There may be few flowers now to give colour to a walk, but that doesn’t mean they are not important. At present, if you go down to the Heritage Viewpoint and look at both the path-side flowers and the mass of Welted Thistle at the edge of the