High season

Sorry not to have posted for a while but things have been predictable here in Thrupp, although very abundant.  I'm prompted to send these portfolio pics of recent arrivals by Steve's post on 20 June about the smart little black micro with the white line, which also comes here. Spot the butterfly, too, which I've included because it's a Black Hairstreak.  It's taken me 72 years to see one of these, early yesterday at Bladon Heath where it was sipping from brambles with a friend and two White Admirals.  Martin Wainwright, Thrupp, Oxon