Whilst walking in Toad Holes Beck the other day I noticed by the fisherman’s pond a different looking species of Dock.
I examined it closely and it was a Water Dock – Rumex hydrolapathum which surprisingly has never been recorded before.
There were about 5 plants in the area so it seems to be doing well in the damp soil by the waters edge.
I then went to look for any early Bee activity during the sunny weather on the path at the top end of Raw Nook LNR.
I saw a mining bee coming out of a nest hole in the ground and assumed that it was a Lathbury’s nomad bee which breeds in the area and I even put down in my records as that species.
However, I was wrong it was a Tawny mining bee!
However, it is still a good record as I can strongly suggest that the species is breeding at that location which is good for the reserve.
