After a morning shrouded in cloud, there is eventually sunshine in the afternoon with broken cloud. The Honey Bees are keeping busy buzzing around the Borage and the Bumblebees, are well, bumbling around the bee plants (the name of which escapes me!) Some plants look parched, and are in desperate need of rain, of which lately we have had very little. I watch the aerial stunts of a lone Swift picking up insects on the wing. Two fledgling Blackbirds 'Pip' and 'Squeak' are making light work of picking berries from the Amelanchier tree. A male Kestrel hovers overhead for its prey, without success. Disturbed a White Plume Moth.

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Yellow is abundant around the garden with Cephalaria, Coreopsis, Hypericum, Lysimachia, Sedum, and Sisyrinchium.

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Picked Strawberries and Raspberries from the plot. Cut back Granny's Bonnet foliage leaving few remaining to self seed.

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