Elegant
R and I spent the day trying to recover from the surfeit of fun we had with the Boy Wonder over the weekend. My urge to get out and about wasn’t strengthened by the weather, which was horrible for the … Continued
First of the year
In the middle of a busy day, I sneaked an hour up at the Community Orchard in Cleeve Prior, where there was no dragon activity at any of the ponds, but the strips of long grass and wild flowers between … Continued
Meadow Brown
I’ve reduced the half-dozen books I used to have on British butterflies to just three: Butterflies of the West Midlands, which has good local information including walks and likely sites for spotting various species; Peter Eeles’ excellent Life Cycles of … Continued
In the pink
We’d been told to expect wet weather for much of the day, and I’d planned my time accordingly, but in the event we didn’t get much rain till this evening, when the garden got the kind of soaking that meant … Continued
Bumblebee Plumehorn
It seems that our sweltering early summer is over, at least for now. Large amounts of rain are forecast to fall across the country next week – which to be fair, the farmers certainly need, and the rest of us … Continued
Maturing nicely
R and I went to Croome this afternoon, and were surprised, given that it’s half-term week, to find it blissfully quiet. After a quick ice cream stop (a measure of how hot I was, given that I don’t much like … Continued
Chasing around
I think it’s possible that the Four-spotted Chaser might be my favourite British species of dragon – though that ranking is subject to daily challenge, and if I ever get unfettered access to Norfolk or Southern Migrant Hawkers, the Chaser … Continued
