Insect Life in the Comfrey

The sunshine yesterday brought out a variety of imsects and spiders to bask on the comfrey leaves including the Green Nettle Weevil, various fly species (House Fly, Female Phasia hemipera, Scorpion Fly), a Wolf Spider, Plant Bug, Scarlet Tiger Caterpillar, a Small Spurwing May Fly and a Stone Fly

Find the Dipper

Spent an hour or two yesterday marvelling at the camouflage of the Dipper in a sunlit stream, its feathers echoing the ripples in the water. This bird was very busy feeding youngsters under the bridge I was standing on.

Ducklings and a Mistle thrush fledgling