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   Sunday and the start of another
week. This afternoon our garden was open as part of an open gardens in our
village. As I was showing someone our small pond I noticed this damselfly
nymphal case on one of the plants. I was only disappointed that I was not
around to see the insect emerging. Also included this picture of
a moth taken yesterday which was on the marquee in which the flower
show was being held. I will endeavour with the limited books I have to
identify it. However if anyone can put me out of my misery with an
identification I would be delighted to hear from them on
jollgreen@tiscali.co.uk Having looked into this a little I think this may be
crambus pascuella. There is a useful site for anyone interested in British Moths simply click on this
link.
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  Monday
and photos from yesterday evening. The grasshopper decided to display himself
on a white door, perhaps he had been unwise enough to do so before as he
appeared to only have one hind leg. The moth which I have not been able yet
to identify, although I have no doubt that it is very common, was on a wall
in our hallway.
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 Tuesday
and today's photo is courtesy of my 7 year old granddaughter's eagle eyes. She
spotted this scorpion fly in the forest when we walked there yesterday. She
was really enthusiastic for granny to take a picture of her find so that we
could identify it. Thanks to her I learnt something new, I did not realize
there was any such thing as a scorpion fly.
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  Both
of today's photos were caught on a buddlia bush in a nearby garden.
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  Thursday,
and two photos of the juvenile blackbird that has been taking the berries
from the mahonia plant on our patio.
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  I've
noticed that as the weeks progress the juvenile robin's breast is colouring
up. We also have the return of some house sparrows.
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   Friday,
and I'm up nice and early. The weather looks unpromising, however we can hope
as yesterday was bright in spite of the forecast. At the moment I seem to be
placing the previous days photographs on the site so from yesterday's
sunshine I include the red admiral which was on our buddlia. Also some sort
of fly which was less than 10mm long, unfortunately my resources do not permit
me to identify it.
The chaffinch was a picture taken on 21st July which I forgot to add but it
also serves as a reminder that I found a dead fledgling chaffinch on one of
our patio chairs yesterday. I think it had probably flown into the garage
window and killed itself that way.
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  Saturday,
and the weather is a great improvement on yesterday which was wet until the
late afternoon. It is cooler than it has been but the sky is blue. I managed
to take some photos in the afternoon and the one of the juvenile tit with a
bad hair day gives an indication of what the weather was like, there was
quite a stiff breeze blowing when this was taken. The robin's photo also
shows the raindrops on the flowers surrounding him.
As I have mentioned during the last week, we are privileged to have a large
number of juvenile birds in the garden and this morning I took a photo of
this young sparrow.
And before we finish with this week I thought I would include this photo of a
greenbottle which was on one of our rhubarb leaves.
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  I was a
bit premature signing off this morning as I had an excellent end to a good
week. This afternoon managed to obtain a photo of one of the many pond
skaters (gerris lacustis) which frequent our little water feature, usually
they are far too quick for me but this one was obviously more interested in
whatever it was feeding on. Also just after this I noticed this small moth
fly onto one of our plants in the shadier part of the garden and was able to
take a picture. If I have idenitified it correctly it is a Plain Wave (idaea
straminata) and if so is not quite as common as it's name suggests. Anyway I
was delighted.
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