1 x Small Tortoiseshell, 1 x Peacock.
Warm and sunny.
High
heath. Ripening capsules of the moss Ceratodon purpureus.
And closeby, the glaucus leaves indicate the (male) antheridia of Pogonatum urnigerum - one of the Polytrichales.
I spotted these three Whirligig beetles spinning all over the surface of the ditch. Gyrinus substriatus.
An Earthworm crossed the Hedgerow, leg 2 path. Lumbricus rubellus.
Common Carder Bumblebee - Bombus pascuorum - nectaring but not gathering pollen.
This could be a very interesting shot. Last year I found some putative Bombus cryptarum specimens. I was asked to keep my eye open for more and this has the typical black notch on the yellow collar. B. cryptarum is a recent segregate from B. lucorum.
The first new shoots of Tutsan.
The simple straight stems of Water Horsetail - Equisetum fluviale - have sprung up.
Later, I was called out to look at scores of pupae on a porch ceiling. Small White butterfly - Pieris rapae. I won't bother with the spider.
And in the same porch, a 3 cm. long millipede.