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Barry did you get your swanndri sorted if not a have a dark blue zipped swanndri technowool flleece too large for me so would be xl reasonable offer accepted mark lang

Thats correct, if dog wood latex in leaf veins will enable leaf to stay together, images look like dogwood leaves

does depend on what product, i have some trestex overtrousers and they were expensive (but heavily reduced) and have actually proved to be excellent very comfortable, breathable and durable. In general products are cheap and nasty, but there is good stuff in there as well.

agree with most of the plants but its not sheeps bit scabious, its either small or field scabious small umbellifer will be burnet saxifrage, not yarrow. looks like calcareous grassland so you might find salad burnet in there - leaves quite easy to iD and taste of cucumber

I think they respond to flying ant swarms, ive often seen the same thing they are literally picking them off on the wing

Plant is common hemp nettle Galeopteris tetrahit

definitely a labiate and i would agree with marsh woundwort Mark lang

a waterproof, warm hat (gloves in winter), warm layer in winter, small FAK, torch, water and food map and compass and a mobile

as a professional ecologist who teaches plant ID i would use Francis Rose the wildflower key, its not as technical as it looks and once you get used to it is fantastic. Nothing else works as well in my view

I concur - definitely sanicle a small woodland umbellifer, toothwort and sea sandwort Mark Lang

I find gore tex liners don't last, make my feet hot in the summer and when they you get water overtopping get wet take twice as long to dry - horrible. I prefer unlined leather boots with sealskin socks when required - these last a few years but at least they are replaceable, dont like wearing...

I have done this with taiga fleece under an arktis Polycotton windproof, works is waterproof but too warm for active walking, that's the rub as the fleece tend to be warmer than the pump lining what I have done is wear the Quito jacket under Polycotton which SSD a lighter than the Targa fleece...

I have recently had the same dilemma. What I have concluded (to be tested this weekend in the hills) is that a single light wool or fleece top are fine for walking but once I stop I need something warmer: either down, primaloft, or buffalo. if im backpacking, like this weekend I will take an...

definitely agrimony

Adders do swim although rarely! Much more likely to be a grass snake, did you see a whit/yellowish collar just behind the head? worth sending the location and time of the sighting to your local biological records centre

its sea aster common saltmarsh plant

I also think it may be fat hen, but the orache species can be quite difficult, should be softly hairy or mealy all over

I agree light is right but with caveats. Lighter gear means less weight so you can travel further, but there is a trade off between comfort, durability and weight. It is all about understanding the limitations of your gear, the conditions you expect to encounter, what type of activity you are...

Marsh harriers will use fields away from reedbed both for nesting and foraging, they like the edges of arable fields. Males have the white wing patches, together with mainly brown wings, but black wing tips, female and young dark drown with cream head. I would guess marsh harrier Best book...

Guelder Rose - its in Rose, but imges not always that good