Sweet Briar

This morning, I cycled over the golf course to the Weeke suburb of  Winchester. I noticed a couple of wild rose shrubs along the way, and stopped to photograph the flowers. Later, I asked the Plantnet App to identify the plant, expecting Rosa canina (dog rose ), but it said it was more likely to be Rosa micrantha (Small- flowered Sweet Briar).The latter doesn't appear in my trusty Fitter and Blamey Wild Flowers book. Reading elsewhere, it seems the sweet briar has  fragrant foliage as well as flowers, so I will need to return to check that out, to confirm the ID.  

Field Marshal Stormin' Norman reminded me it was World Turtle and Tortoise Day, so I made sure he had a tasty buffet lunch of wild strawberries, buttercup flowers, organic dandelion leaves, a couple of crunchy Sedum leaves, a tender stem of bindweed, and  a slice of cucumber. I had hoped to "blip " him but by the time I had got organised, I found  he had scoffed the lot, and retreated to bed for a siesta! 

There was no sound of chirping  from our Great Tit nestbox, today. I think the  baby birds must have fledged yesterday while we were out, or else very early this morning. I haven't seen any Great Tits either. I think the parents encourage the babies to move  away from the nest site. I hope most of them make it. It's a dangerous life out there for young birds; I know  there's a sparrowhawk  in the vicinity, as well as domestic cats.