Hangin’
R and I had to go to Stratford his morning, to sort out a couple of final bits of admin on my new car. When we left the dealership it was raining, so we scuttled grumpily over to BTP for … Continued
Small Skipper
Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued
Transformation
When I walked around the garden this morning, looking for insects, I was surprised to find that the weather had suddenly turned autumnal – dark, windy, and none too warm. I found a few invertebrates, but none that really interested … Continued
Marbled White
One of the big advantages of having a garden that looks more like an overgrown field than a tended area is that meadow butterflies are wont to wander into it. For the past ten days we’ve had Meadow Browns and … Continued
