16/09/2021 More photos from August and still I have not caught up!

 The maximum temperature here today is 24⁰C, minimum 15⁰C. Raining as I type this. Wind 10km/h icy North-Easterly winds with gusts up to 26 km/h!

Moth Burnet Companion (Euclidia glyphica)...

As above.

Cyclamen

A rose with a fabulous perfume.

Sunflower.

Garvinea Cheeky Pink

Melodious warbler (Hippolais polyglotta).

Nasturtium.

Tomatoes.

Tiny sunflower with a busy bumblebee.

Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album).

Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria).

Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus).

Wasp (Scolia hirta) on the sweet potato flowers.

Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera)...

As above drinking...

As above all at the water bowl.

Garlic chives in flower (Allium tuberosum).

This bee is very dark but possibly Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera)...

As above.

European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io).

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (91 Species 20/06/2021).

See also my

 Bird blog

Joining up with My Corner of the World. 

05/06/2017 In the garden once more.

Maximum temperature 22C, minimum 8C.  18 km/h SE wind with 22 kmh gusts.  Dry.

A hoverfly at rest.

A different species of hoverfly...

and the same one staring me out!!

Hummingbird hawkmoth.

Hydrangea.

Oedemera nobilis - male, the female has thinner legs.

Yesterday's rose today.

Meadow brown.

Small tortoiseshell.

Small white being bombed by a bee...

and by another small bug.

Chalicodoma parietina - I think

Raspberries ripening.

The stamens of the day lily.

04/06/2017 A Sunday walk in the garden.

Maximum temperature 21C, minimum 7C.  13 km/h NE wind with 19 kmh gusts.  16 mm rain measured this morning.

Think I will just rest my head here....

Green Lizard (Lacerta viridis)...

He was very relaxed about me walking past him today.

Bee on the cotoneaster.

 Chrysocrambus craterellus - heavy dew on the grass this morning.

Cinnabar, beautiful in flight but I was not quick enough!

Much larger cherries on the second tree almost ripe now,

Courgette flower with numerous bugs and a hoverfly.

Azalea.

The day lilies are putting on quite a show this year.

Love in a Mist.

The first rose this year other than the climbers.

01/06/2017 Cherries taking up most of the day so a few more photos in the garden.

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 13C.  8 km/h SE wind.  5 mm rain measured this morning.

My favourite of the day, two hoverflies on a very pale Californian poppy.

and the Carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) runs to a second favourite.

Azalea.

Bind weed, pretty but what a bind!

Clematis.

Day Lilies.

Meadow brown (Maniola jurtina)

Small Heath (Coenonnympha pamphilus)

As above.

Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)

As above.

Dianthus in the rosemary bush.

Red Dianthus.

Sweet William...

as above with a hoverfly.

No matter how many we pick there are still thousands though the rain is rotting a few.

Our neighbour said "beaucoup" (a lot) and how right she is.