Having visited this churchyard many times over the years, I'm reasonable familiar with its flora. However, I sense a decline in its value that's evident through the felling of a couple of mature trees and an a gradual extension to a more uniform grassland sward.
As with most churchyards at this time of year there are many native and cultivar primroses. A small watercourse that runs through part of the site is flanked by ancient woodland indicator plants, such as dogs mercury, wood anemone and ramsons. The native bluebells that carpet part of the churchyard have yet to come into flower, but the increasingly widespread Spanish variety is now showing well. I've only found Solomen's seal in this churchyard, but I've yet to determine if this specimen is native or a garden hybrid. Troublingly there's also a patch of Japanese knotweed.
In terms of birds a couple of goldcrest moved between several yew trees, a chiffchaff called from just beyond the churchyard with a blackcap in the distance.
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