Autumnal
It was a pretty bleak day, and my equally dour mood wasn’t improved by the realisation that the ivy is now coming into flower. This is almost the last gasp of summer, and means that autumn is just around the … Continued
Spring plumage
Tired from the weekend, and with quite a backlog of domestic stuff to sort out, I only managed a short garden bug safari today, and took just a handful of photos. That’s to say, a hundred or so, which in … Continued
Marshmallow
Quite a bit of the Boy Wonder’s morning was spent in our kitchen, helping us to wrap his Daddy’s birthday presents – both the rock cookies we made yesterday, and the gifts R and I had bought for G – … Continued
Aphid eater
This was my first Eupeodes of the season, and I was pleased to have my identification confirmed by the hoverfly recorders, because male Eupeodes are tricky, and can’t always be taken to species. We have nine of these species in … Continued
Rap jumping
It was another day of murky weather and horrible light, so I felt compelled to take a second trip around the hedgerows in search of ivy feeders. R has chosen, as his favourite of my keepers today, this photo of … Continued
Shimmering
It was a trying kind of a day – not least for anyone who had to deal with me as my emotional temperature soared – but a few good things happened, and this was one of them. As I walked … Continued
