As promised, here's another batch.
This time you get 36 pics taken at the Tank Museum – just click the pic below to get the others:
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Summer Hols 2009 – Dorset – around West Bay
Well, I've eventually managed to find time to deal with a few of the holiday snaps. I won't bore you with a load of text - you can have the story in pictures instead. You can expect a few more posts like this over the next few days.
Let's start with 14 pics taken around West Bay - just click the pic below to get the others:
Crew-cut
A couple of weeks ago our large Salix babylonica decided to dump an eight-foot long by one-foot dia chunk of rotten wood on the lawn. For safety's sake we had to put the garden out-of-bounds for a while until the experts had had a look at the thing. They recommended pollarding to reduce the weight, remove any deadwood and reduce the "sail".
Yesterday their crew turned up to do the deed...
That's a serious bit of trimming, eh?
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Life's been a bit full of other stuff for a while now, so the blogging has had to take a back-seat for a few weeks. I'll try to catch up over the next few days, starting now...
This year has been a good one for the number of butterflies in our garden, but not so good for the range of species. So far, the list of species found is as follows:
- Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
- Large White Pieris brassicae
- Small White Pieris rapae
- Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus
- Painted Lady Cynthia cardui
- Small Tortoiseshell Aglaise urticae
- Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
- Peacock Inachis io
- Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
- Wall Lasiommata megera
- Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
- Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
- Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
- Large Skipper Ochlodes venata
- Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
- Green-veined White Pieris napi
- Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines
- Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas
- Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
EDIT: Just to let you know that Old Winter has blogged about his butterflies today at http://oldwinteramble.blogspot.com/2009/08/butterflies-july-aug-2009.html
