Been off work for three days. Two of those have been misty, mizzley, cold and grey, weather to hide from. Get the TV on, pull the fleece blanket up round your neck on the sofa and stay as cozy as you can.
Saturday, however, was just glorious. Mid November, and it was shirt sleeves weather. I went to Rumbles cafe at the park, and watched a red admiral - always the last butterfly on the wing each autumn - flutter over my head as I sipped on my tea.
Because of this warm November, there's still some flowers in bloom in the lovingly cultivated beds outside Rumbles, and unbelievably there's still some other pollinators on the wing.
A hoverfly and a honeybee, still awake and feeding!
It's an absolutely beautiful thing to see and a privilege to photograph it. But really, is this what we should be seeing so deep into the autumn? Flowers in bloom and insects feeding off them?
I know that a lot of nature lovers are worried about this too. They wonder why there are trees in bud, orchids sprouting in meadows and other manifestations you would expect in March, not November. It feels wrong to them. It feels wrong to me.
Something isn't right out there.
Si
All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 14.11.22
Lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you entirely, lovely though it is to see insects on the wing just now, something's definitely not right. In Edinburgh, we had a lovely warm, sunny weekend, it felt like early September rather than November!
And since then, non stop rain for my rides to work!
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