It never occurred to us when we planted a short section of escallonia hedging at the front of the garden that it would become a focus for insects during any late autumn or early winter fine weather. This afternoon, the flowers were feeding three red admirals - we don't recall ever before seeing more than one red admiral at a time....
....a moth which may be a silver Y, as well as....
....countless bumblebees and honey bees, and....
....several species of fly, mostly hover flies.
We are enjoying a most unusual run of good weather. Other than last weekend's southeasterly gale and a few grey days in September, we've had good weather for some six weeks. As one local put it when this was remarked upon, "Aye, but we'll pay for it!"
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