Tag: The Lizard

  • Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage is a low, spreading plant that lights up damp shady places with a golden glow in spring. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Wood Anemone

    Wood Anemone

    Also known as Windflower, the Wood Anemone is a flower of early spring, found in woodland glades and old hedgerows.Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Golden Hair-lichen

    Golden Hair-lichen

    It is always a pleasure to find the rare and beautiful Golden Hair-lichen. Kynance is a good place to search. Photo: Björn S…, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Lesser Celandine

    Lesser Celandine

    The bright buttery glint of Lesser Celandine in the hedgerows and fields is a welcome early sign of spring.  Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Three-lobed Crowfoot

    Three-lobed Crowfoot

    This speciality of muddy tracks and ruts on The Lizard starts to show its delicate, tiny white flowers in February and March. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Dog’s Mercury

    Dog’s Mercury

    Found mainly in woodlands and hedgerows, Dog’s Mercury is far from showy, but is distinguished by being one of the earlier plants to flower each year. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons  

  • Championing the Lizard’s rare liverworts

    Championing the Lizard’s rare liverworts

    The Lizard is justly recognised as a hotspot for mosses and liverworts, as much as it is for rare clovers, rushes and wild asparagus. This article explains more and highlights an exciting recent discovery. Although much is known about the rare wildlife of The Lizard, there is plenty more to be revealed and, as a recent…

  • Fulmar

    Fulmar

    Fulmars look superficially like gulls but are, in fact, related to Albatrosses. They can be spotted near to coastal cliffs, such as at Lizard Point. Photo: © Richard Birchett

  • Land Quillwort

    Land Quillwort

    Look out for the ‘Catherine Wheel’ leaf rosettes of Land Quillwort between autumn and spring, a plant that, in mainland Britain, is only found on The Lizard. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Winter Heliotrope

    Winter Heliotrope

    This winter-flowering, vanilla-scented plant of waste places and roadsides is not native to Britain, but is a valuable source of nectar for emerging insects in the earliest days of spring. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Rook

    Rook

    Rooks, familiar across the British countryside, also have an important place in our folklore. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Sea Campion

    Sea Campion

    Sea Campion, a flower of early to mid-summer, flowers into the autumn on The Lizard’s clifftops. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Mute Swan

    Mute Swan

    Watch for graceful Mute Swans on The Lizard. The creeks of the Helford River are a good place to look. Photo: © Amanda Scott

  • Greenfinch

    Greenfinch

    If you feed your garden birds, you probably won’t need to go far to see Greenfinches, a regular garden visitor, on The Lizard. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Golden Plover

    Golden Plover

    Golden Plovers hang out together in flocks on grasslands and marshy areas in the winter. Windmill Farm is one of the best places to see them on The Lizard. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Grey Heron

    Grey Heron

    Grey Herons can be spotted fishing at places such as the Helford River or Windmill Farm.  Photo: Amanda Scott