Inexact naturalist

A circuit of South Black Hill, Scald Law (579m), East kip and West Kip in the Pentlands


The high ground


A heather and a bell heather;
crowns and epaulettes on the serpentine hills.

Two grasses 
Two sedge
Bilberry
Two mosses
Blanket moss
Crowberry
Bog sedge
Reddish grass 
Spidery deep green plant
Cotton grass 
Little yellow flower 4 petals - tormentil
Button toadstool 
Meadow pipit
Crow 
Hare
Swallow
Grouse droppings
Tiny cleavery thing with white flowers, profuse
Tiny club mossy junipery  thing - a moss - cushions and swathes of it - hairmoss?
Sphagnum 
Sheep
Buzzard mewing
Heather pollen - clouds
Five bilberries eaten

Broader leaved rush with burnt orange tips - a pendulous sedge with hanging seed head 
Tall single shoot thistle
A tiny lichen with  pale grey-green trumpets
Whitey grey and rusty spreading lichens
A red-shorted runner
A puffball 
Larch
Nettle
Scots pine
Bracken 
Harebells
A purple grass with pyramid of spaced seed heads 
The ridge line like a sleeping dragon or a squat frog's head
Lambs calls floating up
Distant traffic
The wind catching a shoulder of the hill
Fleeting sun and shade
The muted roar of the distant airport 
Yarrow
Small leaved sorrel


The Trackway down


Eyebright
White clover 
Thyme
Scottish thistle - spear thistle?
Plantain
Field thistle
Sycamore
Birdsfoot trefoil
Buttercup
Ryegrass
Little white flowered water loving thing like a forget-me-not

Yellow paint brush flower - cat's ear
Wood pigeons cooing
Ash
Mountain ash
A far off kestrel or merlin or even a peregrine and two crows - the hawk diving at the crows
An orange spurge, vetch  or pea-like plant
Elder
Beech
Another type of pine
Silver birch
Yellow sorbus
Wild cherry
Hawthorn
Grey green curly pads of lichen on stone walls 
Dock

A tall willowy grass like reed
Lady's bedstraw


Finally


A great sweep of rosebay willowherb and meadow sweet