![Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris
Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris showing straw coloured flowers
![Meadow in summer with butterflies](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Meadow in summer with butterflies
Meadow in summer with red kite circling, green woodpecker feeding from distant ant hills, goldfinch on teasels, and a peacock butterfly on a knapweed bloom with a Painted lady on hawkbit. A family cycle past behind.
![Saltmarsh landscape](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Saltmarsh landscape
Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea