The occupiers of one of the houses on which the local House Martins have been nesting had contractors painting the outside of the house today. I really hope the final broods got way in time. Might explain why the birds appear to have left the area.
Better news came from Edinburgh where a small Ragwort plant on Arthur's Seat held a single Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) caterpillar - my first of the year after inspecting what must have added up to thousands of similar plants from Luton to Buckie. Lots of good plants about including a clump of Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber) growing out of Samson's Ribs...
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