Summer Solstice Sightings

Although the date would suggest mid-summer it has hardly felt like it for long. The evenings have been beautiful though and as long as I'm wearing waterproofs in the morning the walks just get a bit damp so it has still been possible in the beautiful long grasses of Piddle Brook Meadows.

Here are a couple of as yet, unidentified plants! Some research required..

The Banded Demoiselles are appearing but the numbers of Green Damselflies have been greater. 

It has been commented in the media recently that the number of ladybirds is low this year. I haven't seen any yet.

A Yellowhammer was repeatedly singing from the hedgerows on my walk this morning and as I left the Meadows, right by the road to Naunton Beauchamp another one was singing. It was a bit windy but here is the video...