01.09.06

Dragonfly
Lots of swallows
A lot of apples this year

02.09.06

Sowed lady's bedstraw and woolly thistle seeds in wild flower patch

03.09.06

2 pretty speckled butterflies - probably speckled woods
Common and field grasshoppers
1 green and 1 blue dragonfly
Lots of apples and blackberries

08.09.06

Very small green caterpillar (1cm long) on underside of ash leaf

09.09.06

Grasshopper
Lots of crane flies
Dragonfly
Red berries on guelder rose, hawthorn and hips on the rose bushes
Black berries on buckthorn, dogwood and elder
Blue sloes on blackthorn
Lots of acorns on some of the young oak trees
Newly coppiced hazel has grown high above the nettles again
Speckled wood butterfly

14.09.06

2 squirrels
3 muntjac deer
Grasshoppers

15.09.06

Cranefly city!
Grasshoppers
Great blackberries on route

17.09.06

A profusion of fruit: ripe and suprizingly large apples, Hips, haws, guelder rose and blackthorn
Crane flies everywhere
Speckled wood and comma butterflies
2 red admiral butterflies
Robin "ticking"

19.09.06

Lots of apples and acorns
Craneflies
Dragonflies

29.09.06

Pipistrelle bats, including a soprano pipistrelle, seen and heard on Bat Night

30.09.06

Lots of red admiral butterflies
Small copper butterfly on hedge near gate