Maximum temperature today 16C, minimum 9C. 2 mm of rain measured this morning; 12 km/h South Easterly winds with up to 32 km/h gusts.
Total rainfall so far this year now 437 mm.
A lone bee in the cherry tree, but not being accommodating for photos!
Also anti photos, was what I believe to be a wasp in the Acer blossom.
Buzzing by at speed in the lawn, possibly the same wasp as above.
Les gendarme beetles (Pyrrhocoris apterus).
Ground ivy everywhere!
Wild violets.
Then I saw my first small common lizard of 2018. So happy they are back...
followed by a larger one checking to see if it was safe to come out...
obviously it was
Just a bit later, I saw that love was in the air...
As above.
RIP little shrew - damn barn cats!!
