Hmm...

[Wander]

I'm sitting atop the Downs right now, having a brew break.
On my walk I have seen several butterflies - tortoise shell, red admiral, large white, clouded yellow. There are still common centaurys in flower (the scarlet pimpernels were still out this time last week but seem to have shut up shop now). This morning, on one of the trees at the bottom of the garden was what looked like a garden warbler - far from 100% on that ID.

Just seems wrong.
It's now late(ish) November. These things should have disappeared a month ago, yet still here.

Anyone else seen things that shouldn't still be around?

 

[Toddy]

We were just talking about that an hour ago.
We're still picking fresh strawberries, not the wild ones, but cultivated ones, and raspberries, and my roses are in bud again, and the heather has flowered again too.
Loads of insects about, I found a ladybird on the washing the other day. They're usually asleep by now, but there are still greenfly and whitefly on the beech hedge, so I'm presuming they're finding food.

If Winter comes in hard after this, it's going to hurt. Lots of the trees have swollen buds already.

 

[SaraR]

Last weekend my bees were out flying as if it was in the middle of summer! I hope they don’t wear themselves out as a result.

 

[Broch]

Yep, we've noticed the same - loads of stuff still around that we don't expect to see including red admirals and warblers.

Interestingly though, we're not getting moth species particularly late; we're only trapping the winter species now (with such imaginative names as 'December Moth', 'November Moth', and 'Winter Moth' ).

But, at the same time, we are getting some of the expected winter bird visitors like the Redwings.

 

[Tony]

I was in a swarm of mosquitoes a couple of days ago, quite disconcerting as we'd had a frost that morning as well...

 

[C_Claycomb]

Yeah, seen some bees and my rosemary is in flower. Not prolific, but more than a few.
very messed up autumn.

 

[Kav]

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