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A mole snuffles around in the leaf litter at the edge of the woodland path. It doesn’t appear to be attempting to dig so I’m wondering if its ploughing through the acorns, twigs and leaf litter in search of food, insect larvae for instance. Perhaps after a prolonged dry spell, what I imagine would be its preferred food, the earthworm, is in short supply.
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The brimstone moth, Opithograptis luteolata, will fly by day as well as by night. Its larvae feed on hawthorn and other shrubs.
This Highland calf was keeping out of the sun in the shelter of a mesh awning, venturing out only briefly to check out the food trough.
In his recent book How to Look, Draw & Paint, Matthew Rice argues that you can manage without earth colours by mixing your own, more varied, versions of them from the brighter colours in your palette (see below)...