The wood dock at the eastern end of Mice&Red (see below) has enlarged very quickly. It is as good as a Hosta.
There was a visit from a comma butterfly. It fluttered carefully between various leaves, seemingly testing them to see if they were nettles and suitable for egg laying and the subsequent sustenance of her caterpillars.
The sorrel plants (Rumex acetosa) have flowering stalks surging upwards. The tops look like red and green hard roe. Several wasp-like nomad bees (Nomada sp.) were present flying low over the ground among the grasses and herbs, searching no doubt for the nests of mining bees in which to deposit their eggs. They are cuckoo bees, cleptoparasites with larvae that eat the food that was intended for the larvae of the host.
Today's butterfly was a speckled wood that settled on a red campion leaf. With its head pointed directly towards me and its wings held over its back, it was remarkably hard to see.
