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Monday, January 31, 2022

31/01/2022 Just made it before the end of the month :-)

The maximum temperature here today is 10⁰C, minimum 3⁰C. Rain this morning but it has cleared a bit now with quite a lot of clouds. Wind 21km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 44 km/h. We have had a very cold past week, temps went down to -5⁰C and maximums were only at 3⁰C. Far too cold for me!!

The bud from the Red Robin shrub. (Photinia x fraseri)

Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) hanging on the shutter and looking in the window.

Our neighbour's lambs...

as above...

Mum watching me carefully...

and her babies.

Around the garden, if I look hard!

Top - Bergenia cordifolia and Bellis perennis.

Bottom - Viburnum tinus and Viola riviniana.

The seed pods from the hibiscus.

The lambs, 4 days older than above....

as above...

As above.

The only water birds I see around here are my two wooden Mallards.

There has not been a lot to take photos of, but I have some great shots of some of the birds seen in the last fortnight. They are all on my bird blog.

My local list of wildflowers. (91 Species 02/12/2021).

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

09/03/2021 All photos in the garden.

Maximum temperature here today 10⁰C, minimum -2⁰C. Dry . 9km/h North-Easterly winds with gusts up to 26 km/h. If the forecast is right it starts raining again tomorrow and the temps stay low.

The past week the weather has been great and the bugs and lizards have been out and about - think they have now all gone undercover again. I have been gardening so no time to go out for walks.

On another note, I had my second COVID jab yesterday and no reaction other than a slightly sore arm.

Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles japonica).

Daffodils.

Japanese camellia (Camellia Japonica).

Two-spot ladybirds can have up to sixteen spots! And then to confuse matters further, the ten-spot and harlequin ladybird can also have two spots. I was presuming this 16 spot was (Adalia bipunctata)... On second thoughts maybe this is the Asian Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis.)

As above...

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)....

As above with a Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus) commonly known as the Gendarme beetle. It was totally ignored presumably not very tasty!

Large Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis polychloros) on the viburnum tinus...

As above...

As above looking a little battered! ...

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As above being bombed...

As above.

Lawn daisy (Bellis perennis) with what I believe to be Sweat bees (Halictidae).

Hoverfly and I think (Eristalis tenax).

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna).

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/08/2020).

Saturday, March 9, 2019

09/03/2019 Only flowers today - it seems too cold for the insects again

Maximum temperature today 14C, minimum 7C. 4mm rain measured this morning; as I type this we are having a mixture of more rain on and off. 20km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 45 km/h.

So far this year we have had 85 mm, compared to 320 mm last year, and 158 mm in 2017. We may though have messed up January as we were not here, and we took the reading of what was in the rain gauge on our return which was only 16mm.

The only surviving plant from our trip to Amsterdam in 2015. I have just repotted it so I hope I have not killed it off now! Our roofing guy says it looks like 'un lapin' 😉 (a rabbit).

Bergenia cordifolia.

Camellia.

Daffodils.

Hyacinth.

Rosemary.

Viburnum.

Japanese quince.

Crocus.

Bellis perennis

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

25/05/2016 A great sunset, and lots of flowers with a little help from our friends

Maximum temperature 23C, minimum 6C. 34 km/h SE winds. The forecast had it wrong again - we only had about 3 drops of rain this evening. Luckily I watered the vegetables.