Biodiversity

This year (so far, anyway) there are no cows grazing on the common, which is good news for me given my track record of life-threatening bovine encounters. One wonderful side-effect of this is that the field has become a wildflower meadow teeming with life in the form of butterflies, caterpillars*, beetles, ladybirds, and bees, rather than the vast, cow-mowed, cowpat-covered lawn that it usually is.


*although the Cinnabar moth caterpillars' days are numbered as there are currently regular National Park volunteer parties out in force removing the ragwort