Dear Members of the Doncaster Naturalists’ Society

While it lasts, you’ve got to come and see this!!!

The free-floating carnivorous plant the Bladderwort, a rarity in the Old Canals area of Thorne Moors National Nature Reserve, has turned up on Hatfield Moors and can be seen in bloom on-mass in one (perhaps several) of the lakes along the path from the Natural England (Boston Park) Car Park to the demonstration Neolithic Trackway/WWII Air Crash site (follow the yellow arrows).

This is normally a shy flowerer but this year, possibly due to the hot weather, the massed blooms of piercing yellow paired flowers extend over many tens of meters (!).

It is possible that such a vista has not been witnessed on the Humberhead Levels in Yorkshire since the drainage of the Hatfield Chase in the 1630s or the exploitation of the Thorne & Hatfield Moors by the Horticultural Peat industry.

Collin