Suddenly it's Summer

 

male stonechat

painted lady

yellowhammer

brown rat

female stonechat

male and female common lizards

painted lady

peacock

meadow brown

common lizard

green-veined white

grayling

goldcrest

roe deer

common blue

Super-rare Yellow-legged Clearwing moth

Butterflies Too

Small Copper

darter

Meadow Brown

Silver Y moth

female yellowhammer

Small Skipper

Red Admiral

Marbled White

Above: water vole latrine with new, old and trampled droppings. Below, two sizes of droppings suggesting a juvenile and an adult vole.

shaded broad bar moth

gatekeeper butterfly

purple hairstreak

water shrew

silver studded blue

 

Voles Compared to Rats

 

Rats: greyer, much pointier nose, more prominent ears, white feet.