Cloudy with occasional light showers.
Honeysuckle berries have ripened.
The first shot of the hoverfly Leucozona glaucia for the year.
Another early instar of the Forest Shieldbug - Pentatoma rufipes.
A distant shot of a second-generation Speckled Wood butterfly. These have been quite scarce this year.
Another leaf-miner, this time of the micromoth Mompha raschkiella. On Rosebay Willowherb.
Notice anything wrong with this image of one of the woodland paths? All of the umbellifers (Hogweed, Angelica, etc.) have been surgically removed by strimming the edges. What are all the hoverflies and other insects supposed to feed on?
To compound the problem the riverbank and associated streams are covered in Himalayan Balsam.
So the plants that should be left alone are exterminated and the extremely invasive weed is left to prosper. This is called Getting It Wrong.
Sycamore Tar Spot - Rhytisma acerinum - is ubiquitous in the woodland edges.
Some gentle soul had pulled up this Xerocomus lanatus and left it lying in situ.
I met an elderly gentleman nearby who told me that you can eat some wild mushrooms, "but only if the underside is white". Obviously he hasn't tried to follow his own advice, because he's still alive (many of our deadliest fungi have white gills).