Total monthly rainfall: 121.5 millimetres   Maximum daily rainfall: 29 millimetres (17^th June).

There were 13 days with no measurable rain, and it remained dry from June 6^th to the 16^th. There were 14 days with 100% cloud-cover for at least part of the day.

Maximum temperature on the warmest days was 25°C on the 1^st and 13^th. Maximum temperature on the coldest day was 14°C on June 21^st. Unusually, there were no days when the wind-strength rose above Force 4 on the Beaufort Wind Scale.

Wildflower first-sightings for the month were marsh bedstraw (6^th), white water-lily (9^th), and woodland honeysuckle (11^th). There was nipplewort and sow thistle on the 16^th, white clover and tufted vetch (17^th), and self-heal plus marsh willowherb (18^th). Meadow vetchling (20^th), yellow archangel (24^th), pineapple weed and water figwort (26^th) and pink convolvulus (28^th) completed the list for the month. These 14 brought our running total to 43 species to date.

Dog rose (1^st June) and guelder rose (2^nd) were the only wild shrubs to flower this month.

• Common swift moth indoors Common swift moth indoors
• Foxglove in woodlan Foxglove in woodlan
• Possible grey dagger moth Possible grey dagger moth
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There were 4 more butterfly sightings this month bringing our running total to eleven species. The first was a painted lady on June 9^th, quickly followed by the first of many meadow browns on the 10^th. Last of all was a large skipper and a ringlet on the 23^rd.

This was a comparatively good month for moths. The Silver Y moth arrived rather late on June 2^nd; the common swift moth and common white wave moth on the 15^th; the garden grass veneer moth on the 17^th and the straw grass veneer on the 18^th; the brown china-mark on the 19^th, and the green oak tortrix moth on the 23^rd, followed by a possible grey dagger moth indoors (28^th) and the six-spot burnet on the 29^th. These 9 moths take our total to 20.

We have 6 species to add to the 7 dragonflies already recorded so far this year. The Hairy dragonfly first appeared on June 3^rd – another late arrival. A visiting banded demoiselle arrived on the 6^th, a common blue damselfly on the 9^th, and a broad-bodied chaser on the 13^th. Later in the month, on the 23^rd, a common darter appeared, with a southern hawker and exuvia on the 28^th – yet another late first-sighting.

Final insect sighting for the month was a spotted crane-fly on the 15^th.

Bird observations include 5 house sparrows perched on our garden fig tree overlooking a small garden pond on June 1^st.They were eating the emerging common darters; 4 moorhen chicks hatched on the 6^th; a bullfinch was seen on the 14^th; on the 16th a great-spotted woodpecker and chicks stripped a twenty-centimetre area of bark from our Victoria plum tree and drilled a hole in the middle; no mallard ducklings were hatched all month due to the crows’ 100% success-rate in pillaging their eggs, and the Canada geese lost none of their 5 goslings.