We've had a week of better weather, days where the heat has even been causing the Great British Public (TM) to moan.
It usually takes two or three days for that to happen.
This means there has been a lot of pollinators and other beasties on the wing, and I've been trundling about poking my camera into occasionally sharp and stingy things to try and find some beautiful things to show you.
We are just coming out of the June gap, where the first flight butterflies of early spring are done, with the appearance of meadow browns and ringlets in decent numbers, far greater numbers than the early season flutterers. Among bees, a lot of the mining bee species no longer seem to be about, but there are plenty of honeybees and differing bumble types.
Swifts scream above my flat daily, and in rural areas juvenile swallows are being fed on telegraph wires. House martins twitter too, with their stubby bodies and white rumps. A third of the Summer has gone.
And it has gone so fast.
Si
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Thank you for a little dose of England.
ReplyDeleteClear beautiful photos, the last butterfly seems to have fringed tips to its wings.
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