We suggest you look at the following apps and sites, which may be useful when you're out and about:
BirdNET: Works on bird song. You record the song on your device, even if you do not have a signal at the location. The ID you get will include a photograph of the bird

PlantNet:  Suggests ID based on a photo which you can take on your phone and then ID later.  This includes trees, shrubs. Just photograph a flower or a leaf.

Both free on Google Play Store...
You might encounter animal poo when you are at home, either in your garden or when you're out in the countryside.  To identify it, take a note of the size, shape and colour.  Break it apart with a stick to see what's inside.  But never touch it - it can contain harmful bacteria!

Then Google 'Identify poo - the Wildlife Trusts'
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Do let us know of apps you have found useful, please...

Can you find this?

Common Bistort grows at the top of Chapel Lane, Trefonen on the east (right hand) side of the lane. A pretty plant with dock-like leaves; it is not at all common in our area and I only know of one wet field in Trefonen and district where it grows. This is one of the species that has probably been relegated to roadside verges after agricultural improvements to fields. Maybe someone else has it in their damp fields? What a nice find that would be. As spring plants start flowering earlier everything is coming up together in a rush. This is just one species that will have to fight with the taller more invasive Cow Parsley for a place in the herbage.

10 August update...

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Carduus nutans artistic - R Dawes
This is a nice plant that will be out around the Moelydd now. Known as Nodding or Musk Thistle. Insects love it.

Others to look out for now are Field Scabious and Devil's-bit Scabious, both blue, the latter in damp meadows, the former is sometimes found on verges, but they have mostly been scalped now. On the limestone grassland you may also find the Small Scabious.
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Carduus nutans closeup - R Dawes
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