Jostling for your attention. A flurry of activity amongst the Fairy Inkcaps on #FungiFriday

On Top of the World. A pollen covered Ivy Bee foraging amongst the loaded anthers of Common Ivy #WildWebsWednesday

The last of the Purple Toadflax leaves consumed by the last of the remaining Toadflax Brocade moth caterpillars on a plant that was removed from the driveway as a vulnerable self sown seedling and planted in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday

Sickening to see a clump of monofilament line trapped around and damaging the dorsal fin of this Risso's Dolphin off Trondra today. Monofilament is a silent killer of wildlife. Whoever discarded this clearly just doesn't care. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife #marinelitter

White Bryony threading its way up, down and all around Black Horehound #WildFlowerHour

Pushed up through the leaf litter. A pristine Fly Agaric at the edge of urban green space woodland on a former sand & gravel extraction pit #FungiFriday

Up for desert. A Yellow-tail moth caterpillar I think, circumnavigating one of the many blackberries amongst its preferred shrub food plants of Hawthorn and Blackthorn in a Lincolnshire hedgerow. #WildWebsWednesday

Field Maple samaras tumbling about at the field edge #WildflowerHour

My current #FavouritePlant is the Scarlet Pimpernel that has found its way into the gravel bed at the end of our front garden path #WildflowerHour

Shaggy Parasol amongst the deadwood and leaf litter in a pocket of urban green space woodland #FungiFriday

Not truly #WildWebsWednesday but this Small Copper is only one of three I have seen so far this season. This one nectared Sedum and the white form of Valerian for a couple of days in my wildlife garden

Seven-spot Ladybird finding its way around the lip of my lunchtime enamel mug

A spiked burr like #Seedheads of Wood Avens hooked for animal dispersal #WildFlowerHour

A somewhat worn out Leafcutter Bee embedded in a Field Scabious flower #WildWebsWednesday

Amongst today’s other work challenges. Don’t eat too many blackberries.

Oregon Grape and a Lincolnshire drystone wall #fruits #WildflowerHour

Blushing red. The leaves and jewel like berries of Guelder Rose #fruits #WildflowerHour

An Aspen leaf revealing its true colours.

A Common Blue butterfly amongst a patch of Meadow Vetchling on Lincolnshire farmland

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A great way to round the long weekend off. A just now, purely by chance observation of a Humming-Bird Hawk-moth in the garden

The colour purple. Clustered Bellflower on the Colsterworth Bank, a Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Roadside Nature Reserve #WildflowerHour

Common Sea-lavender overlooking the River Welland Outfall where it meets The Wash, Lincolnshire #WildflowerHour

It’s not all about obvious rays and disc florets. Two very different looking members of the #daisyfamily that both like damp low lying ground. Hemp-agrimony and Common Fleabane. #WildflowerHour

A butterfly that I am unlikely to see in lowland Lincolnshire or indeed again for sometime in its native Norway. Opting for an app id of Arran Brown nectaring Devils-bit Scabious in a damp clearing in mixed coniferous woodland on the Fjellstreckninger, rising above Bergen. #WildWebsWednesday

A #WildflowerHour #PollinatorPal for Wild Angelica. A Pale-saddled Leucozona hoverfly seen along woodland edge on the Ogden Water Local Nature Reserve near Halifax

Having been away for a few days where the #BigButterflyCount does not count I managed a last count this morning on the Ogden Water Local Nature Reserve, Halifax. Including this perfect Peacock resting on Common Heather alongside a rocky hill path between woodland and the rough edge of a golf course

Cabbages and Kale. The formality of informal planting in the garden of the Bergen University of Natural History Museum, Norway.

Incognito. A female Blue-tailed Damselfly that has been visiting my small garden pond the past couple of days. Being polymorphic this one appears to be in a brown form. #PondWatch

A novel #BigButterflyCount from behind my mower whilst cutting PROW farmland footpaths around Welbourn, Lincs yesterday. Despite a lightly overcast day Gatekeepers and Meadow Browns flitted along the hedgerow, Common Blues mainly in the tall grasses. I may have unwittingly spotted a Brown Argus too?

Spear Thistle finding itself “In the Dock” amongst Common Fleabane. The jury is out if it is Clustered Dock? #WildflowerHour

Musk Mallow between a kerbstone and a hard place. Its other option was my own garden where it escaped from. #WildflowerHour

Wednesay is the day before Thursay but today it is actually #WildWebsWednesday

A Gatekeeper about to unlock the nectar that can be found in Common Fleabane #WildWebsWednesay

I have not knowingly seen a Ruby Tiger moth before but this one appears to have met its watery end in my garden wildlife pond. #MothMonday #TeamMoth

Hairy stemmed and downy leaved Common Fleabane #HairyPlants #WildFlowerHour

A brush with these #HairyPlants can leave you with a tingling sensation. Common Stinging Nettle #WildFlowerHour

A perfect little pollinator. A foraging Early Bumblebee worker busy with inflight raspberry creation in the garden

A pristine Six-spot Burnet on a recently exited papery yellow cocoon on a grass stem. One of many seen amongst the uncut wildflower rich verges including Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil, managed by residents of a Lincolnshire housing estate #MothMonday #TeamMoth

Wild Basil bathed by evening sunlight on the “Colsterworth Bank” Roadside Nature Reserve managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Just beyond the fast lanes of the A1. Wild Marjoram on the “Colsterworth Bank” A Roadside Nature Reserve on a village slip road managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust #WildflowerHour

Treading carefully in the garden. It has been a day of intermittent rain deluge and the snails, having been locked up in their shells, hiding from the fierce heat, are making the most of it.

Wall Barley blown about and still waiting for the rain on the bank of the River Slea, Lincolnshire #GrassChallenge #WildflowerHour

Timothy blooming in June in the no mow May patch under the garden rotary washing line. #GrassChallenge #WildflowerHour

There is a bit more to stonecrops than I realised but I am going with white flowered English Stonecrop and yellow flowering Biting Stonecrop colonising the concrete surfaces of a former Lincolnshire airfield #WildflowerHour

Out and about mowing rural footpaths this week I spotted my first of the year, magnificent Privet-Hawk moth on a Lincolnshire farmland fence post #insectweek

One of many Meadow Brown butterflies seen out in Lincolnshire farmland feeding on Creeping Thistle and one passing through my suburban garden wildlife patch feeding on Erysimum #WildWebsWednesday

Wild Onion. Clustered little jewels swaying in the breeze #WildflowerHour

Meadowsweet frothing up and spilling over the bank of the River Slea, Lincolnshire #aquaticplants #WildflowerHour

Unplanted companions. Scarlet Pimpernel and Field Bindweed on a Lincolnshire field margin #WildflowerHour