Insects released from a light trap set overnight 7th to 8th of June by Dougy Wright: 1 Poplar Hawk-moth, 3 Elephant Hawk-moth, 2 Lobster Moth, Rusty-dot Pearl, Common Carpet, 4 Marbled Minor, 7 Buff Ermine, Snout, Green Carpet, 3 Cinnamon Sedge, Willow Beauty, 2 Mottled Beauty, 2 Dark Sword-grass, 3 Large Yellow Underwing, 2 Grey Pug, Purple Bar, Beautiful Golden Y, Burnished Brass, Riband Wave, Angle Shades, Middle-barred Minor, Flame Shoulder, Ingrailed Clay, Small Square-spot, White Ermine.

Other insects: Painted Lady (9th and 23rd); Large White, Speckled Wood, many Meadow Browns, Andrena sp. mining bee, Nomada sp. nomad bee, White-tailed Bumblebee (23rd); Emperor Dragonfly (30th).

Birds: Nuthatch, Goldfinch, Robin, Dunnock, Herring Gull, Rook, Jackdaw, Chiffchaff, Greenfinch, Blackcap, Song Thrush (both the last two still singing strongly on 23rd), Magpie, hen Pheasant (with young calling from the undergrowth at the bottom of the churchyard extension on 23rd), Swallow, House Martin, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon.

Plants coming into flower: Yarrow, White Clover (5th); Stinking Iris, Ox-eye Daisy, Restharrow, English Stonecrop, Meadow Vetchling, Common Cleavers (Goosegrass), Bramble (9th); Lady’s Bedstraw, Honeysuckle, Silverweed, Common Hemp-nettle, Ragwort, Pineapple Mayweed, Scarlet Pimpernel, Figwort (23rd); Field Rose, Perforate St John’s Wort (30th).

Plants continuing to flower: Primrose (last few), Red Campion, Scentless Mayweed, Common Dog-violet, Common Field Speedwell, Three-cornered Garlic, Herb Robert, Navelwort, Bluebell, Greater Stitchwort, Honesty, Ribwort Plantain, Wild Strawberry (some also bearing fruit from 23rd), Wild Carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace, Common Sorrel, Sweet Vernal-grass, Cocksfoot, Meadow Foxtail, Annual Meadow-grass, Selfheal, Common Vetch, Hedge Bedstraw, Fuchsia, Creeping Buttercup, Foxglove, Herb Bennet, Lesser Trefoil, Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil, Hogweed, Sow-thistle.

Reptiles and Amphibians: Common Toad