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Thursday, September 16, 2021

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).

Saturday, October 24, 2020

24/10/2020 Trying once again to catch up!!!

Maximum temperature here today 18⁰C, minimum 11⁰C. 43 mm rain measured in the last 24 hours... 22km/h South-westerly winds with gusts up to 43 km/h. We have had some very strong winds, but luckily no major damage other than a few minor branches that have come down

Cyclamen

Calendula note the very small fly !

Sedum.

Possibly an edible mushroom but we did not try it.

So many acorns this year, almost worth buying a pig to have a clean up!

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta).

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)...

As above.

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).

Cuckoo Bee (Epeolus fallax) with a crab spider. Obviously not tasty as the spider ignored it...

As above. The spiders take remarkably large prey at times, but also this may be a little too large.

Autumn Daffodil or Crocus (Sternbergia lutea).

Gendarme beetle (Pyrrhocoris apterus).

Common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) that will soon be going into hibernation enjoying a few rays of sunshine.

Golden Rod Crab spider (Misumena vatia).

Cotoneaster berries.

Euonymus in its autumn colours.

Great banded furrow-bee (Halictus scabiosae) on the cosmos,

Common Blue female (Polyommatus icarus).

As above...

As above.

Large white (Pieris brassicae)...

As above...

As above.

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

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Trying to catch up a bit......

Maximum temperature here today 31⁰C, minimum 13⁰C. Dry. 12km/h South-Easterly winds with gusts up to 24 km/h.

Apologies for lack of blogs and lack of visits, but with the dehydrator not working, I had to keep up with bottling, and then when the dehydrator returned in working order, there was still a lot of figs (and they have not stopped yet) to be prepared for dehydrating. I am sorry that I did not weigh all the fruit but I didn't. We have though 5 large bags of quartered figs dry and a couple of bags of sliced figs also dry. Now the apples are ready! I have already bottled some stewed, and some apple sauce from the fallers. But will pick out a few good ones for dehydrating, we have two Granny Smith apple trees. In between we rescued a few quinces from the top of the tree, thankfully there was not a lot this year. The quinces made up 4 large bottles of fruit and 8 jars of jelly. Oh, and of course an overload of haricot beans meant bottling curried beans which we prefer to frozen.

Proof that I have not been loafing!!

I have though each day managed to get out and take at least get one photo - I needed to keep Blip going. If you have never tried it, meet the great community of Blip Here. If you should join please let me know so I can follow. I Blip under the name of 'Charente'.