Total monthly rainfall: 102 millimetres. Maximum daily rainfall: 28.5 millimetres (10^th June).

June was a month of much-needed rainfall, with measurable rain falling on 10 days of the year sufficient to top-up pond-water levels by some ten centimetres. There were 16 days with complete cloud cover for at least part of the day.

Maximum temperature on the warmest day was 30°C on 29^th June, while maximum temperature on the coldest day was 12°C on June 19^th, and there were fresh-to-strong winds on June 6^th-8^th, 13^th-15^th, and 26^th-28^th – often leading to the downing of twigs and green leaves from some trees.

With 21 wildflower species coming into flower during the month, we have now reached 54 for the year. White clover appeared in the fields on the 2^nd, interspersed with red clover, and marsh bedstraw around the lake on the 4^th. Tufted vetch and petty spurge bloomed on the 9^th, and a week later meadow vetchling and creeping cinquefoil flowered on the 16^th.There then followed a succession of flowering plants, including self-heal on the 19^th; marsh woundwort and tall mellilot on the 20^th; dark mullein, agrimony, yarrow, and water plantain on the 21^st; hedge bindweed on the 22^nd;  hedge woundwort, rough hawkbit, and marsh willowherb on the 23^rd; field bindweed and nipplewort on the 24^th; water figwort on the 25^th, and finally, knapweed  on the 27^th.

This month, seven new species of butterfly made their first appearance of the year, bringing our species-count to 21 so far. On the 3^rd we spotted both the meadow brown and small heath among meadow grasses –this being our very first known sighting ever for the latter.  A painted lady, the first of three, arrived here on the 9^th June, and all three spent a large part of their time thereafter nectaring on our garden hebe bush. On the 24^th, the first small skipper appeared in our front meadow, followed by a belated large white the following day, when we also saw two pristine white admirals on an alder buckthorn in our woodland ride.  The 27^th produced a marbled white in the same meadow as the small skipper three days before.

It was also a much better month for moths, with 9 species putting in an appearance. The month began with sightings of a silver Y and brown china-mark moth – both beside the lake on the 1^st, and a common swift moth on the 2^nd.  The white china-mark appeared in similar habitat on the 11^th. On the 12^th we saw two yellow shell moths in the wood, and also a large yellow underwing among grass near a woodland pond. A common white wave moth appeared on the 19th, flying underneath a hazel shrub in our woodland ride, before we found a brimstone moth on a garden rose later the same day. Our last moth of the month was a white plume moth among garden flowers, including sweet-pea plants. There was one more moth of interest, however, and that was a lackey moth indoors on a tiled floor on the 25^th June . It does not count as an additional species because we have already seen its caterpillar during May.

Our final sightings for the month consisted of three dragonfly and one crane-fly species. On June 1^st we spotted our first emperor dragonfly of the year patrolling the western end of the lake. Next day, on the 2^nd, we found a black-tailed skimmer guarding its territory between two four-spotted chasers; and finally, on the 18^th, we discovered a banded demoiselle among rushes close by the emperor’s patch. We now have 11 dragonfly species for the year so far.

The crane-fly was a tipula lunata, first identified here last year, and first seen this year among rushes on the 15^th.