I took a quick trip over to the Hartslock Reserve at Goring this morning, as it is the last chance I’ll get for a while due to my back operation.   I was hoping that the White Helleborines would be in full flower, and after speaking to a member on the Wild About Britain forums, I hoped to locate the Pasque Flowers that were re-introduced to this site in 1998.

On arriving, I found it to be very windy, with the wind whipping up the hillside.  This made photographing the Helleborines rather tricky.  The Helleborines were almost out in flower, but not fully open, but I took a few shots nonetheless.

The Pasque Flowers are now past their best, but I found them easily enough this weekend, and took a few photographs.  I found one in flower, one just coming into bloom and another still in bud.  A lot of them looked as though the flowers had been chewed off by rabbits.

On the Orchid slope, I discovered a few more Monkey Orchids in flower, though the solitary one I photographed last weekend has vanished.  I do hope that this doesn’t mean that some idiot has picked it.  There are a few also in bloom on the lower slope where the footpath runs through.

I also saw a few butterflies including Small Heath, Common Blue, Dingy Skipper, Green Veined White, and the Yellow Shell and Pyrausta nigrata moths.  Red Kites were also soaring above.