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Summer Days

Good weather continues, and the kids are off school, so I have some extra spotters in the garden.  This Yellow Shell Moth was new; not a very yellow example, so I hope I got the ID right.  Still plenty of butterflies coming through - this Gatekeeper was the first I've had in the garden this summer, as was a Common Blue I was too slow to photograph yesterday.  There was also a rather impressive Southern Hawker around this morning, which I hope I will manage to snap sometime - my first large dragonfly.  Finally a new garden pest, Bay Sucker bugs, messing up the leaves on my bay tree - so far the tree doesn't seem too badly affected...