Archive - Nov 7, 2004

Took a quick walk in Narborough Nature Reserve this morning near Swaffham in Norfolk. It is owned by Norfolk Wildlife Trust and managed by Butterfly Conservation. It runs along a section of a disused railway that ran from King's Lynn to Swaffham. The chalk embankment is rather similar to what you might expect further south. Unsurprisingly for this time of year the flowers were looking a bit sorry for themselves but there was still a reasonable number of plants of scabious. I think the scabious in the pictures are field scabious (Knautia arvensis).

OK - so this isn't rocket science but when I made this null modem they were selling in the shops for something like £12 or so. You can get them now for around £3 or £4 but if you fancy making your own they are quite easy.