Thursday, July 08, 2010

meadow dogs


lounging around in a meadow full of bird's foot trefoil, stitchwort and bedstraw

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

honeysuckle cottage


honeysuckle growing on the wall of Spike's house (just across the road from us)

Monday, July 05, 2010

Lynher walk 3


in the green cathedral

Lynher walk 2


let's all go down to the Hogweed and hang out (longhorn beetles)


or maybe we prefer the Bramble, it's quieter (male and female demoiselle agrion)

Lynher walk

some images from our walk today.

a slow fly past by a heron



a skipper taking a rest

Sunday, July 04, 2010

inner ringlet


further to the picture several days ago, this shows the upper wings of the ringlet butterfly. There are relatively few species of butterfly about at present, but there seem to be hundreds of moths about at night.