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Saturday, October 23, 2021

23/10/2021 Almost a month since my last blog.........

The maximum temperature here today is 16⁰C, minimum 4⁰C. Sunny and blue skies. Wind 13km/h chilly North-Easterly winds with gusts up to 29 km/h!

As winter approaches I might be able to catch up with all the photos I have taken and not managed to do anything with........ in the meantime some photos still from September.

16/09/2021 the setting sun.

24-09-2021 the moon going down early in the morning.

Shield bug (graphosoma italicum)...

As above...

As above.

The Wall or Wall brown butterfly (Lasiommata megera).

Shield Bug (Eurydema dominulus) on the glass of our back door....

As above...

As above.

Western Whip Snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)...

I opened the back door to find this dear little fellow (about 45 cms long - 18inches) heading straight for the open door, I shot in to grab the camera and by that time it was nearly in the door, I managed to head it off in the other direction but it was not really happy about my ideas. It finally went and hid under the garden table so I left it to sort itself out and find a better place to go,..

I guess that it thought the house may be a little warmer to hibernate in!!...

As above...

As above.

Bugatti seen at the local supermarket advertising the historic car racing last month in Angouleme.

02/09/2021 La Rochelle Aquarium - Surgeonfish and Oriental Sweetlips

Nuthatch (Sitta europaea), the first one we have seen in the garden in 15 years.

03/09/2021 Seen at 'Les Oiseaux du Marais Poitevin' - Northern Pintail (Anas acuta).

Photos of Spoonbills are on my bird blog see link below.

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

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

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)

Saturday, July 28, 2018

28/07/2018 A mixture of the week away and current photos.

Maximum temperature today 27C, minimum 18C. A light shower of rain as yet not measured; 15 km/h North-westerly winds with up to 37 km/h gusts.

The car reading yesterday was 41͒ C !!

If anyone can tell me what this little bug is I would be delighted, taken while in the Dordogne.

Wall Brown Butterfly, (Lasiommata megera) In the Dordogne...

As above.

Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) in the Dordogne.

Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) - Dordogne...

As above.

Lots of sloes around but they were not ready yet though I am not very fond of Sloe Gin anyway!

Back home a bumblebee in a poppy....

Gatekeeper or hedge brown butterfly (Pyronia tithonus) on our lavender,

Yesterday we were out to lunch, as we were early we stopped by the lake at Le camping La Meteorite near Rochechouart. To read more about the Meteorite see HERE