Something in the Air

Sunday 15th October 2000, West Yorkshire

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AFTER SO MANY grey rainy days today is better than some we had in summer.

Two Drone-flies meet in a mid-air clinch by the hedge.

We get a brief glimpse of a skipper butterfly which flies up from a roadside verge. Its flight is more direct than that of most butterflies. We haven't seen them often this year, certainly not in our garden.

A Small Tortoiseshell feeds on Michaelmas Daisies in a roadside garden.

wasp

The sunny afternoon makes me decide that it's about time I cut the hedge. Mowing the grassy path alongside it I accidentally stir up a commotion on the wasps' nest. I was saying only the other day that they have been no trouble, even so I wait for the activity to die down before I gingerly back away the lawn mower.

Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail; 'richard@willowisland.co.uk'

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