How would you describe an English summer?
Is there a characteristic set of wild animals and plants that epitomise Britain in August?
My attempt to answer that exact question turned into a series of articles, which I am slowly publishing online. The first of these- "Swifts Swallows and Butterflies"- (written back in August 2009) was published today by the website Quazen. You can find it here-
http://victoria-neblik.quazen.com/recreation/outdoors/swifts-swallows-and-butterflies-august-in-north-yorkshire/
This summer, I have been back in North Yorkshire and the wildlife here has been quite different. The cabbage white butterflies of the quazen article have been replaced with a plethora of bumblebees across much of the (Hambleton) region this year, last winter's bitter cold has killed many common garden plants; the mild weather and light winds in April gave masses of pear blossom and now a huge crop of fruit. It is not exactly surprising but still interesting to observe just how much the flora and fauna of an area can vary from one year to the next.
Link-of-the-day today is this selection of 70 wonderful animal pictures that goes by the very appropriate title "70 Cutie Baby Animals Bring you a good mood".
Thanks to stumbleupon.com for the cute animal links.
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