odd one out ....
While I was out walking early one morning last week, there was a noticeable end of summer feel to things. The grasses and wild flowers had set their seeds, the berries and fruits were formed on the trees and shrubs, and the leaves on the trees had lost their summer softness and were rattling in the light wind. I was walking beside a hedgerow which was thick with Ahrrentherum elatius, a common native grass. It had all flowered and turned to seed, apart from a single inflorescence which was in full pristine flower. It was being visited over and over and over again by a constant stream of the same species of tiny hoverfly, feeding on the pollen in the minute flowers which were trembling in the breeze. I watched it for a long time .... this is a 15 second video of it.
odd one out ....
While I was out walking early one morning last week, there was a noticeable end of summer feel to things. The grasses and wild flowers had set their seeds, the berries and fruits were formed on the trees and shrubs, and the leaves on the trees had lost their summer softness and were rattling in the light wind. I was walking beside a hedgerow which was thick with Ahrrentherum elatius, a common native grass. It had all flowered and turned to seed, apart from a single inflorescence which was in full pristine flower. It was being visited over and over and over again by a constant stream of the same species of tiny hoverfly, feeding on the pollen in the minute flowers which were trembling in the breeze. I watched it for a long time .... this is a 15 second video of it.