First damselflies. Butter-and-eggs flowers in Moore's Meadow. When the wind gusts, clouds of pollen like rising smoke from the flowering grasses.
First Red Admiral butterfly. The Red Admirals are migrants, flying each summer from central and southern Europe. They lay tiny, green eggs singly on the upper surface of a young nettle leaf. When the egg hatches, it bends the leaf over to make a tent, inside which it eats and gets fat. It pupates inside its tent, and two or three weeks later hatches out into a butterfly. In a good season, the butterfly will breed again; a few Red Admirals overwinter in southern Britain, but the rest fly back to the continent.