There's plenty of wildlife to be seen on our morning walks down to the village including, today, this roe stag and, the other day, no less than....
....three of these characters, but such excitements don't stop us noticing how fast the season is moving on. It's still July yet....
....the rowan berries are red on many of the trees, as are the....
....rosehips, while many of the summer plants....
....such as the foxgloves, have largely finished flowering for the year. Some of this earliness can be put down to the long, dry summer, and particularly the warm May, which may also help explain why....
....the fungi continue to be disappointing.
However, perhaps the greatest disappointment this year has been the butterflies. So far, in my eleven 15-minute counts for the Big Butterfly Count, I've only registered eleven butterflies from three species - red admiral, peacock and tortoiseshell, though there are some whites around.
The lack of butterflies is particularly disappointing as we've worked so hard to fill the garden with the shrubs and flowers the insects love. At present, verbena and four varieties of buddleia are in exuberant flower, and the butterflies' favourite, the michaelmas daisies, should be in flower shortly.
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