Kit Hill dawn

 

Morning glory with Spot and Harriet

last of the winter sun

rooks watch the sun go down

images from a far away land

last of the summer walks

the Tamar at Calstock viaduct on a warm October afternoon

two rarities

At last summer has arrived with some warm sunshine. The meadows are full of wild flowers. This is a heath fritillary (female) feeding on cornish bladderseed, two rarities in one.

cornish bladderseed

did you knock?

Swallows roosting in our porch. They have had one unsuccessful attempt to breed already. Something (probably local sparrows) raided the nest and chucked the eggs out. They will probably try again.

may is out

you can start casting clouts, the May is out. (There is some dispute about the origin of this old saying, but I like to think it refers to the hawthorn coming into flower, whatever the time of year, and it is a bit late this year). So out with my clouts.

at last, a green hairstreak butterfly

I have been looking for this little green butterfly (the green hairstreak) for the last five years, and at last today in Greenscombe woods, I spotted this one and was able to photograph it. Hooray! And there were a lot of heath fritillaries about

and lots of heath spotted, marsh and lesser butterfly orchids, and a crab spider waiting for an unsuspecting pollinator.

froghopper

the black and red frog hopper looks like a mis-shapened ladybird but is one of the spittle bug family (see link British bugs ). They are supposed to be common but thgis is the first red and black one we have seen.

out for a stroll

fox crossing

near the zebra?

Calstock in bloom

enormous wisteria climbing over end of incline railway at Calstock (see this link Calstock information)

beautiful Spring, Pempwell, Cornwall 2016

the white sparrow

just one more for old times sake, the amazing sight of  an albino (or leucistic) sparrow in the garden of Spot's new(ish) abode