Yesterday on Harting Down, there were beautiful skies; the sun with showers forecast turned out to be mostly sunny. The sky was deep blue, and the sun’s beams lit up the gold, yellow, green and red colours of the autumn leaves.
The bostal path up to Harting Down
Probably Quercus faginea, Portuguese Oak; a non-native introduction to a small estate on the escarpment south of South Harting.
On/From the South Harting SSSI summit/plateau
De Stijl Neo-Plasticism. South of South Harting. Green diagonal stripes: Ivy growing up dying Ash. White diagonal stripes: Old Man’s Beard growing up Hawthorn.
Grey and orange. Ash and Beech
Elder with Polypody Fern
Hawthorn and Stonechat
Dog Rose
Rainbow
Whitebeam, Ash, Yew, Beech
Hawthorn
Ash, Whitebeam, Hawthorn
Sheep
Sunflower
Hawthorn
Blue Blackthorn sloes
Juniper
Whitebeam, Hawthorn, Dog Rose, Juniper, Yew
Holly with Juniper and Yew
Scarp-slope ancient woodland (Rook Clift SSSI)
Gold wedge. Beech
Large-Leaved Lime
Wych Elm
Solomon’s Seal
Field Maple
Sim's Nature Notes 