Wow! How did we get get to September (nearly) so quickly? This year has flown by so fast. Maybe because it has been such a lovely Summer with lots of lovely sunshine and (too) hot weather. This year I have not travelled very much with my camera, hopefully will get out and about in the Autumn months (my favourite season).
Another photograph to water colour style image for this lovely Friday evening. Hope you like this one. If any of you are interested in creating your own drop me a message on here and I’ll add a link to the tutorial that I use on YouTube.
What a most beautiful start to the start of the UK Summer holidays.
A more enjoyable heat of 20+ instead of searing 35°+
The past few weeks have been so busy and hot, that I’ve neglected a journal post! But, I’m here with some time to write one. Enjoy the sun and have a lovely day!
People across the UK are being asked to take part in an annual count of butterflies starting on the 15th July.
I was only thinking the other day that I had not seen many butterflies at all in my garden or on the country lanes when I go cycling.
The Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide citizen science survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment. It was launched in 2010 and has rapidly become the world’s biggest survey of butterflies. Over 107,000 citizen scientists took part in 2021, submitting 152,039 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the UK.
Big Butterfly Count could provide key research on the impact of climate change on wildlife.
Members of the public should spend 15 minutes outside counting the number and type of butterflies they see.
The annual count will take place over the next three weeks starting on the 15th July.
Packham, who is vice-president of Butterfly Conservation, said: “Biodiversity and climate crisis is an urgent issue and it can be overwhelming to think about what we can do as individuals to really make a difference.
…low numbers of speckled wood butterflies, while small tortoiseshells, commas, green-veined whites, large whites and red admirals
Butterfly Conservation
“Because butterflies and moths make excellent indicators of the impacts of climate change and other human environmental factors, collecting data on their numbers is really important.
If you want to get involved or find out more visit these links. You can also download a fabulous poster to help identify the butterflies and day time moths!
Hope you are having a good weekend so far? I’ve been seeing more and more butterflies round the garden and fields which is something that I have missed over the winter months. Send me your pictures of Butterflies where you are.
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Hope you are having a good week so far? I’ve been seeing more and more butterflies round the garden and fields which is something that I have missed over the winter months. Send me your pictures of Butterflies where you are.
Making this website & journal takes time (and a WordPress subscription) , if you would like to buy me a coffee (donate) to keep me refreshed please make a donation – thank you
Brilliant blue sky & hot Autumn sun today (Friday). How lovely to be sat basking in the garden.
The term Indian summer reached England in the 19th century, during the heyday of the British Raj in India. This led to the mistaken belief that the term referred to the Indian subcontinent. In fact, the Indians in question were probably the Native Americans.
The term Indian summer is first recorded in Letters From an American Farmer, in 1778.
“Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.”
Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur:
The English already had names for the phenomenon – St. Luke’s Summer, St. Martin’s Summer or All-Hallown Summer and the French also referred to l’été de la Saint-Martin.
These have now all but disappeared and, like the rest of the world, the term Indian summer has been used in the UK for at least a century.
I think I prefer the term All Hallown Summer.
“An Indian summer crept stealthily over his closing days.”
People across the UK are being asked to take part in an annual count of butterflies amid fears they have been affected by poor weather this spring.
I was only thinking the other day that I had not seen many butterflies at all in my garden or on the country lanes when I go cycling.
TV naturalist Chris Packham said participating in the Big Butterfly Count could provide key research on the impact of climate change on wildlife.
Members of the public should spend 15 minutes outside counting the number and type of butterflies they see. The annual count will take place over the next three weeks starting today!
Packham, who is vice-president of Butterfly Conservation, said: “Biodiversity and climate crisis is an urgent issue and it can be overwhelming to think about what we can do as individuals to really make a difference.
…low numbers of speckled wood butterflies, while small tortoiseshells, commas, green-veined whites, large whites and red admirals
Butterfly Conservation
Because butterflies and moths make excellent indicators of the impacts of climate change and other human environmental factors, collecting data on their numbers is really important.
If you want to get involved or find out more visit these links.
You can also download a fabulous poster to help identify the butterflies and day time moths!
Last year more than 145,000 recordings were submitted to the Big Butterfly Count, but 2020 saw the lowest average number of butterflies logged since it began 12 years ago – Butterfly Conservation
Hot off the press (or camera) a few new edits done this weekend. A few images of Meadow brown Butterflies and some gorgeous grasses found in country hedgerows.
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