3 May 2023. 18.8 max, 7.5 min. Warmer and sunny. Frequent visits to Wild Onion Glade by a speckled wood butterfly. The first red campio is out on the eastern edge of Troy Track. I saw one of the first spiders of the year. There are shining streaks high on the birch truck. It must be shedding sap. I can see the top of one of the fronds of the broad buckler fern peeping out from behind the birch, The tightly clustered ball of foliage at the top looks like a chaotic bundle of screwed up leaves, but it will soon unroll to a fromd of perfect symmetry.
2 May 2023. 16.6 max, 10,0 min. Still cool, but sunny with only a couple of basking flies on sun-warmed leaves.
1 May 2023. 18.6 max, 6.4 min. A rather cool May Day with little going on in GSM3. All the plants are growing fast and con't seem to mind the cool weather . I have bought a Max/Min thermometer specifically for GSN3.
