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Sunday, April 11, 2021

11/04/2021 Now into April and still only garden photos.....

Maximum temperature here today 13⁰C, minimum 5⁰C. 33mm of rain measured this morning. 14km/h cool North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 35 km/h. We have 90% rain forecast again for tomorrow. Next week the temperature drops and more frost is forecast!!!

I just wonder if we will get any fruit this year with the continual change in weather from hot to freezing, The vineyards have been lighting candle type lights between the grapes, but they say a lot of damage has already been done. It will be a disaster if there is no wine later this year.

We are back in lockdown yet again for at least another 4 weeks... The curfew continues as it has been for several months now.

1 April cherry blossom - all gone now!

White bluebells.

Apple Blossom.

Chaenomeles Japonica - Japanese Quince.

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

As above.

Quince blossom- note the little bee - and white and blue bluebells.

Choisya ternata or Mexican Orange.

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).

I think this is a Katydid (Tettigoniidae).

As above.

Standing in our vegetable garden, the neighbours have their lawnmowers out!!

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).

Apple blossom.

A slightly battered speckled wood (Pararge aegeria)...

As above...

I am open to correction here possibly a mining bee family Andrenidae or Heriades truncorum – the Large-headed resin bee??

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

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

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! ...

As above...

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).

Thursday, March 5, 2020

05/03/2020 Playing with frames.....

Maximum temperature in the Charente today 12C, minimum 6C. Rain all day not measured as yet. I am guessing that we are now over 200 mm this year. 36km/h North-westerly wind with gusts up to 86 km/h.

Because the weather is so bad I have been trying to take a few photos of flowers that are not too beaten up and I have been playing with frames for them. Something different!!