Early June in surrounding fields and garden.

In the field behind the house, the wheat is in ear. It will be 6 or 7 weeks before it is ripe and ready for harvest.
As well as the everpresent pheasant cock, who roosts in the tree to the left of the photo, and who clearly has a harem rearing chicks in the field, there was also a lark up high and in good voice, and swallows swooping the insects.

In the loop of grass which will become the back lawn, there's a good variety of wild flowers - fumitory, shepherds purse, chickweed, buttercups with grasses such as hard brome and Yorkshire fog. All provide food and shelter for the insects which are so vital for the larks and swallows - which are so much more attractive than the noisy, flashy pheasant!