With the weather continuing to be wet and cold the wildlife in the garden here is struggling. Butterflies in particular are few and far between and I am amazed that ringlets and meadow browns appear over the meadow at all. Once the sun manages to force its way out from behind the clouds, a few of these ethereal creatures start to dance over the knapweed or rest in the soaking grass. This would have been a good year for ringlets had the weather been kinder, as there are more about than last year in spite of the rain. Apart from these two species, in the last month we have only seen a handful of small tortoiseshells, a single red admiral and no common blues at all. Whites too are very few and far between. The weather so far this summer could prove disastrous for theses insects as eggs and larvae won’t survive the current conditions. Bumblebees on the other hand are doing well by comparison. The weather though is good for some things and there are reports of unexpected orchids appearing in some places – here too we have had a pyramidal orchid for the first time, in long grass in the back garden!
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Garden Tweets
- A male brambling in an otherwise quiet garden yesterday. https://t.co/uA0J4hzvDh 1 week ago
- Blue tits in the garden getting an early start! https://t.co/9byeany9x0 3 weeks ago
- Frogspawn in the smaller, warmer pond, and a single common newt. Spring 😊 https://t.co/BQeXnyUjkx 1 month ago
- Windy in my Shropshire garden today! https://t.co/hFGW8GGhmF 1 month ago
- Bluebell leaves in the garden this morning. Spring on its way. https://t.co/wYeIjpKI2X 1 month ago
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