A second consecutive day of blue sky was a bit unexpected: the forecast was cloudy with showers! I think I remember that in the olden days (pre-warming) we could rely on weather forecasts for about a week ahead. Nowadays, it seems they can't even get it right for the next 24 hours. I rather suspect the computer models that they use to make forecasts no longer work now that we have warming.
Still, making hay.....
I went down to the local river, where Wild Garlic and Bluebells make the first appearance. A few heads of garlic were in evidence:
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| Flowers of Wild Garlic - Allium ursinum |
And a single Bluebell plant had started to open:
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| Bluebell flowers just opening |
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| The hoverfly Melanostoma scalare (male) |
Syrphus hoverfly species are a little bit earlier this year:
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| Syrphus sp. hoverfly (female) |
There were a great many craneflies in the air. This female (long, pointed abdomen) stopped long enough for a shot:
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| Female Cranefly |
The larvae of craneflies are the 'leatherjackets' that eat the roots of grasses and make empty patches on lawns.
As I'm writing this, we appear to be heading for a third consecutive day of blue sky, so I'm off out again.
3 comments:
It's great to be out in the sun, plants growing so fast, at the park were I record most of my things it can change daily if we have had a bit of sun, Bluebells slowly comming out, people who I follow down south, seem to be well in frount.
lovely photos, specially the wild garlic.
Weaver of Grass said you might be able to identify the mosses in this blog post of mine: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/moss.html.
thanks for visiting my blog and helping with the moss id!
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