I had a walk around the Red course this morning and played 9 holes on the Blue in the evening. One of the most spectacular sites is actually the area just above the car park where a fantastic display of Sheep's Sorrel makes creates some lovely rusty patches.
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| Sheep's Sorrell Rumex acetosella [Car Park] |
There are plenty of other plants in the same area. Bird's Foot is tiny and grows over much of the waste ground at Frilford but is too small to see without a magnifier. Bugloss is larger and is another plant that grows on many of the waste areas on the estate.
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| Bird's-foot Ornithopus perpusillus [Car park] |
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| Bugloss Anchusa arvensis [Car park] |
At the other end of the car park a Chaffinch had a mouthful of caterpillars:
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| Chaffinch [18th Green] |
On the 13th Red, it was nice to see a Garden Warbler - maybe the same bird in the same tree as last year, singing the same song.
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| Garden Warbler [13th Red] |
The highlight of the front nine of the Blue was a Mallard and her six ducklings wandering across the 4th tee.
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