Me and my leaf
R and I had to go to Warwick this morning, and on the way back we stopped off in Stratford so we could top up our already sky-high sugar levels, and I could get a photo. We parked in Old … Continued
Southerner
It’s only three years since R found the first Oak Bush-cricket either of us had ever seen, on an iris leaf in the wildlife pond, but since then I’ve found them quite regularly on different trees and shrubs around the … Continued
Eyed Ladybird
I did a couple of hours of brutalist gardening today, clearing an area of scrub and then cutting back a philadelphus, and it all left me in an appropriately grim mood. My disposition wasn’t helped by the fact that there … Continued
Migrant vs Southern
Well, this is a surprise. After all the gadding about of the last couple of weeks, I decided to give the dragons a rest today, and stay home to work on my editing and recording backlogs. After several hours of … Continued
Common Carder
My day began well, with a productive invertebrate hunt while the morning was still cool after overnight frost. Then things went badly awry, when I decided to tidy up the little free-standing container pond on the patio, and discovered that … Continued