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Mountsorrel Season Watch for Autumn 2003



National Grid Reference: SK 5714

Arriving Birds

First seen
Fieldfare 26.1.03
Redwing 26.10.03

Departing Birds

Last seen
Swift 19.08.03
Swallow 23.09.03

Trees

First tint Leaf fall Bare Fruit ripe Fruiting score
Ash 22.09.03 27.09.03 15.11.03 17.09.03 5
Beech 22.09.03 29.09.03 15.11.03 14.09.03 3
Birch 28.09.03 29.09.03 17.11.03
3
Elder 17.09.03 22.09.03 13.11.03 10.09.03* 3
Hawthorn 27.09.03 20.10.03 13.11.03 14.09.03 5
Hazel 27.09.03 22.10.03 10.11.03
Horse Chestnut 24.09.03 27.09.03 17.11.03 13.09.03 5
Lime 22.09.03 27.09.03 13.11.03 17.09.03 3
Maple 22.09.03 27.09.03 13.11.03 17.09.03 3
Oak 24.09.03 29.09.03 23.11.03 28.09.03 4
Rowan 22.09.03 2.10.03 12.11.03 22.09.03 4
Sycamore 17.09.03
12.11.03
3
London Plane 27.09.03 07.10.03 10.11.03
White Willow 27.09.03 07.10.03 10.11.03

Additional Fruiting

Fruit ripe Fruiting score
Blackberry 10.09.03 5*
Blackthorn 22.09.03 3
Holly 24.09.03 3
Ivy 15.10.03 5
Wild rose 15.09.03 3

Other events
Date
Ivy first flowering
17.09.03


Lawn last cut
14.11.03

Notes
* Due to drought fruit withered prior to maturity

Ken Wiblin

(Heritage Warden)