Showing posts with label Insect hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insect hotel. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2020

29/06/2020 Out walking and in the garden.

Maximum temperature here today 21⁰C, minimum 14⁰C. Dry.  15km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 31 km/h.

My apologies for not keeping up with my blogs or yours but we just seem to be extra busy!!!

Looking through the forest.

The track where I was walking.

A hoverfly.

Somebody's insect hotel.

I walked down to the closest dam in the hopes that I might see something of interest.  Not a bird or an insect in sight.  Well, there were some water skimmers on the water but!!!

Back home a rainbow, look closely and you can see the second one.

Plane number F-HCG0 flying over the garden.

The vegetable garden.

Too big for lizard's lunch I suspect but they seemed to be aware of each other.
Hornet (Vespa crabro) and Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

Small stallion seen on a farm on another walk.  He posed perfectly for me!

Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).  A protected species and they can range from Red to almost black.

Marbled White (Melanargia galathea).

As above.

Peacock butterfly (Aglais io).

Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria)

Wall brown (Lasiommata megera).


My local list of wildflowers. (82 Species 25/06/2020)

See also my

Thursday, July 27, 2017

27/07/2017 No post yesterday as the WiFi connection was so slow!!! Sorry.

Maximum temperature 21, minimum 14C.   18 km/h SW winds with 23 km/h gusts. 3 mm rain measured. It feels like winter!!
Yesterday we met friends at Massignac and drove part way to Cognac for lunch at Les Metaires
This is the Office de Tourisme at Massignac...

behind the hedge is this cow :-)  It is cattle country.

Eglise Saint-Jean.  The original church was burnt down during the Wars of Religion, this church was built in the 18th century....

The church from the back...

and behind the church is the beautifully restored Lavoir

Think this is Black-eyed Susan planted at the front of the church....

and beside it is this little Insect Hotel.

Not sure about the date carved on this, but I understand,  near the church is a fountain devoted to Saint Paul, whose holy waters were said to have the power to rid children of their nightmares. This was the only possible place I could track down.

The narrow streets of Massignac...

The shops which were closed, I am guessing they are all on holiday.  France just closes down for their summer holidays!
More tomorrow about the delightful luncheon, the weather day today is miserable cold and damp. Not a good day for photos!!