orange tip feeding

an orange tip butterfly feeding on May (April?) flowers. For the first time I noticed the dainty brown tips to the orange.

bitter vetch

a view reinforced by the appearance of bitter vetch in the hedgerows.

more than one

there were lots of swallows around today at Beals Mill, so I think we can officially announce that summer is in.

thrush party

these look like song thrushes but they may be a family party of mistle thrushes. Song thrushes look brown, and mistle thrushes look greyer.

pink wood anenomes

this photo shows just how pink the white wood anenome can be.

more tales of the river bank

although this scene looks tranquil the water is foul; it is full of nitrites, nitrates and slurry and anything else the modern agribusiness can flush down the river. The detergents make the water foam up, and it is full of algae. When you look around the only crop anyone cares about is cash, and soon the world will be covered in cash and everything else will be dead. This isn't husbandry, it's murder.