OPEN-AIR DIARY 



JULY 



DATE 



1 Flowers of sneezewort, corn-cockle, corn 



chamomile, common chamomile, narrow- 

 leaved water-parsnip. Whortleberries ripe. 

 Lime-tree flowers. Dock seeds, blood red 

 in the hay. Young starlings congregate. 

 Nightjar's eggs. Cockchafers abound. 

 Triangle moth, dew moth, rosy footman, 

 four-dotted footman, orange footman, com- 

 mon footman, dingy footman, brimstone. 



2 Magpies begin to range into those districts 



where they are never allowed to breed. 

 Privet and blue-bottle flower. Muslin 

 moth, cinnabar, scarlet tiger, grass emerald 

 chevron, lesser yellow underwing. 



3 Haymaking begins. Calamint, wild carrot, 



pimpernel, horehound, field madder, cat- 

 mint, wood-vetch, angelica, yellow water- 

 lily, candytuft flowers. Redpolls in flocks. 

 Tiger moth, July thorn, small carpet, 

 mullein wave, satin wave, smoky wave, 

 blood vein, buff arches. 



4 Cranberries ripe. Flowers of black mullein, 



cow-wheat, hemlock, ragwort, moneywort, 

 common flax-seed, cathartic flax, shining 

 cranesbill, sea-holly, procumbent marsh 

 wort, fennel. Flowers and green berries of 

 bittersweet. Brier hips red. Honeydew 

 on the oaks. Small skipper butterfly 

 appears. 



5 Sparrows flocking in unmown fields. Pewits 



in flocks. Tufted vetch, large-flowered 

 and common St. John's wort flowers. 

 Silver " Y " moth. Marbled white butter- 

 fly. 



6 Sheep's bit scabious, catmint, hemlock, fool's 



parsley flowers. Wood swift moth, lesser 

 broad border, old lady. 



7 Flowers of purple loosestrife, water hemlock, 



common rush, burnet saxifrage, teazle. 

 Small heath butterflies appear. 



8 Flowers of enchanter's nightshade, spurrey, 



common feverfew, frogbit, sweet gale, 

 flowering rush. Dark green fritillary butter- 

 flies appear. Red underwing moth. 



9 Flowers of golden-rod, branching willow-herb, 



common water-dropwort, river water-drop- 

 wort, field scabious, marsh cudweed, com- 

 mon hawkweed, shrubby hawkweed, ivy- 

 leaved bellflower. Grayling butterflies ap- 

 pear. V-moth. 



10 Flowers of black horehound, teasel, evening 



primrose, fool's parsley, wild angelica, 

 parsnip, elecampane, Scotch thistle, cen- 

 taury. Red admiral butterflies appear. 



11 Canterbury bell, wild rose, agrimony, wound- 



wort, yellow vetch, sow thistle, mullein, 

 eyebright, wild thyme, bird's-foot trefoil, 



DATE 



rest-harrow flowers. Brier hips large and 

 reddening. Purple hair streak butterflies 

 appear. 



12 Hop bines overtop their poles. Flowers of 



meadowsweet, great knapweed, cornflower, 

 succory, nipplewort, hawkweed picris, nettle- 

 leaved bellflower, harebell, fine-leaved heath, 

 sea lavender, great yellow loosestrife, field 

 gentian. Last cry of the cuckoo. Young 

 swallows and martins abound on the wing. 



13 Field of peas picked. Flowers of water 



plantain, wild clover, wood sage, loosestrife, 

 pennyroyal, water purslane, black night- 

 shade, great mullein, ivy-leaved toadflax, 

 water figwort, brown bent grass, crested 

 dog's tail grass. 



14 Willow herb flowers along with last year's 



seed-plumes. Flowers of yellow lady's 

 bedstraw, knotted figwort, cornmint, greater 

 skullcap, selfheal, greater butterfly orchis, 

 bog asphodel, great reed mace, reed grass, 

 common reed, hairy brown grass. 



15 Young hedgehogs abroad. Flowers of wild 



morjoram, burdock, round-leaved sundew, 

 wood small-reed grass. 



16 Larks in small bands. Flowers of yellow 



vetchling, milk thistle, sawwort, marsh 

 mint. Yellow-tailed moth, gipsy moth. 



17 White hellebore, mugwort, devil's bit, recurved 



stonecrop, rose bay, great willow-herb, 

 square-stalked willow-herb. Chalk-hill blue 

 butterflies appear. 



1 8 Hops flower. Flowers of lesser burdock, 



spear plume thistle, creeping plume thistle. 

 Holly blue butterflies appear. 



19 Young goldfinches wandering. Balsam flowers. 



Tortoiseshell butterflies appear. 



20 Flowers of soapwort, wood strawberry, cud- 



weed, least cudweed. White admiral butter- 

 flies appear. 



21 Toadflax and succory flowers. Adonis blue 



butterflies over flowering mint. 



22 Wood-white butterflies emerge. Flowers of 



horsemint. 



23 Pale clouded-yellow butterflies appear. Her- 



ald moth, copper underwing. 



24 Purple emperor butterflies appear. 



25 Young swifts flying. 



26 Hay harvest over. Flowers of wild clematis, 



corn-cockle, tamarisk. Birch catkins. 

 Haws are red. 



27 Rough hawkbit flowers. 



28 Flowers of carline thistle. 



29 Bordered beauty moth. 



30 Flowers of autumn gentian, wood betony, 



sheep's sorrel. 



31 Thistle-down lining the hollows of the woods. 



