It's the time of year when, despite the continuing cool weather, everything is rushing to complete the annual cycle in the short weeks we have before the first chills of autumn. So in the forestry at Littleferry, where the foxgloves are particularly fine this year, the first....
....damselflies are out - this is one of only two large reds we found around the edges of Loch Unis. Near them we spotted....
....the first speckled wood which, like the damselflies, was very loath to take off into a cool breeze.
At the edge of the wood, just inland from the links, is a colony of creeping ladies tresses, the first of which are up and in bud, while...
....the first fungi are showing giving me the usual....
....agonies over identification. This may be plums & custard - we've found them near here before - though the colour of the cap is too yellow and this species isn't usually out until July. Happily....
....I'm a little more certain with this: it isn't a fungus but a slime mould, wolf's milk slime.
Out on the links, wandering through masses of wildflowers, we came across....
....the first, tiny, small heath butterflies and...
....feeding on the northern marsh orchids, the first of the day-flying six-spotted burnet moths.
It's the time of year when, despite the continuing cool weather, everything is rushing to complete the annual cycle in the short weeks we have before the first chills of autumn. So in the forestry at Littleferry, where the foxgloves are particularly fine this year, the first....
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