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Thursday, July 15, 2021

15/07/2021 Just a few photos - so much rain.

The maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 14⁰C. Lots more rain over the past week - we have had over 700mm to date this year; last year at the same time we had only 500mm. Wind 11km/h Westerly winds with gusts up to 27 km/h.

Today is the first time we have seen the sun since I last posted a blog, very few photos have been taken. The garden is waterlogged and the vegetables are not looking happy, well most of them are not, though the courgettes seem to be doing better than the rest. Blight is a problem with potatoes and tomatoes.

Hummingbird Hawk Moth (Macroglossum stellatarum).

Hydrangea, Love in a Mist, Calendula,

European umbrella milkwort plus bee with large pollen sacs, Poppy, Rose.

The Passenger Moth (Dysgonia algira).

It was in a dark corner of the house on one of my cutting boards. I tried moving the board after this shot to a lighter place. It flew off never to be seen again!

A drive-by shot the other day of the sky taken on the phone.

A friend commented that it looked like a steam train behind the clouds, sadly no, it really is a cloud.

I cannot pronounce this little fellow's name but you are welcome to try - (Deraeocoris ruber).

It was wandering around on my courgette plants.

Poppy, Love in a Mist, Cosmos (+ Tawny Longhorn Beetle [Paracorymbia fulva]), Potato flower,

Courgette, Sempervivum tectorum, Clematis, Fungi.

Love in a Mist (Nigella damascena) and wasp.

Two for the price of one.......

Longhorn beetle (Stictoleptura cordigera) and hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta).

Bush Cricket nymph....Munching away on the poppies!

Bumble bee (Bombus lucorum) I think!

As above

We have had a French stone mason here over a few days. The wall in the big barn had a crack, not serious but if not treated might well have become a problem. He and his mate have done a fantastic job and the finished job looks very good.

They did an amazing job of cleaning up, the barn is probably cleaner now than it has been for ages!

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

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

Monday, August 3, 2020

03/08/2020 A few photos mostly from the garden

Maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 13⁰C, by the weekend we will be back up to 38C again, the garden is struggling! A light shower that did not register in the rain gauge. 15km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 44 km/h.

The first cosmos of 2020 (Cosmos bipinnatus) of this year.

A slightly bedraggled Common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machon)...

As above

The Clouded Yellow brimstone (Colias croceus)....

As above.

Small Pincertail dragonfly (Onychogomphus forcipatus).

Garden Spider (Eriovixia laglaizei) I watched it for some time. It had caught a hummingbird hawk-moth which it duly wrapped up well in its web. It then cut the surrounding attachments leaving it at the top, and it the carried it up into its larder in the top of the greenhouse - fascinating....

As above.

Gatekeeper butterfly (Pyronia tithonus).

Common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machon)....

As above.

Small white butterfly (Pieris rapae).

Thirsty bees taking a drink.

Bumble bee (Bombus....)

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).

Genus Lithobiusa member of Stone Centipedes Order Lithobiomorpha

Latticed Heath Moth (Chiasmia clathrate).

As above

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

A poppy seed head,

Pumpkin flower pollinators.

My local list of wildflowers. (89 Species 20/07/2020).

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

06/08/2019 Just around the garden.

Maximum temperature today 27C, minimum 14C. Dry. 11km/h South-westerly winds with gusts up to 30 km/h.

Sorry posts are getting further apart, I seem to be so busy with the garden and other things, visitors on Thursday and then friends arriving from the USA for just over two weeks and we will be sightseeing. Will post when I can.