There is birdsong all about me and I know when I might hope to hear skylark in song-flight and, sure enough, there are larks singing on high.
Scabious comes into flower and there's yellow ladies' bedstraw with purple and white thistles.
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Swifts fly screeching about the houses. Sunlight and blue skies gives way to fair-weather cloud as the morning advances. The last week has seen cooler weather and intermittent showers so bramble flowers last longer. Sunlight sparkles raindrops on vegetation and micr-moths and butterflies are on the wing- those species that can fly in such conditions, like small-heath and meadow brown. There is birdsong all about me and I know when I might hope to hear skylark in song-flight and, sure enough, there are larks singing on high. Scabious comes into flower and there's yellow ladies' bedstraw with purple and white thistles.
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Swifts flew screeching so low about the houses they looked huge. Swifts like black scimitars silvered and metallic in strong sunlight. Rain was not far off and others flew high in low cloud with rapid wing-beats. They made the day, my flash-of-silver swifts. A few showers seem to make little difference and pastures looked burnt, flowers blooming and setting-seed quickly in the heat. This morning, sunlight caught trembling grasses on the cusp of shedding seed. The Ghyll flora in June is a delight. Frothy white cow-parsley spills down the bank to meet white ox-eye daisies and red campion which flowered in late May. Now in fine and dry June weather plants grow tall and sorrel is seeding and wafts in the breeze. White campion appears and achillea ptarmica or yarrow. Long-stalked cranesbill, Geranium columbine, is flicked in and out of camera shot and long green buds open to a starry green calyx with petals in purple-pink. Long-stalked cranesbill is a less familiar geranium and I hope it spreads beyond the small patch showing this year. |
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