Pressure of Work

It's been a while since my last post. The pressures of being a self-employed gardener have prevailed.
The summer weather has brought a deluge of work from grass mowing to hedge pruning.
Although I haven't had time to report it, I have seen quite a lot of urban wildlife in the course of the working day and in the moments of rest at home in the garden.
An insect I regularly disturb at this time of the year is what looks like the Red Underwing Moth Catocala spp. or one of it's similar species.
After shearing a Privet hedge I usually use the mower to mash up and collect the prunings. It was lucky for the Privet Hawk Moth that I spotted it before running the mower of the pile of clippings and moved it to safety.
Bird activity in the garden has mostly been Sparrows and Greenfinches.
The Sparrows are starting on their second brood with mating, nest building and repairing activities. It is difficult to recognise the young from the first brood now.
Young Greenfinch have been seen in the garden, I don't know where the parents nested.
A juvenile Goldfinch was seen on the Sunflower seed feeder recently, this bird had the characteristic plumage but lacked the red crest on it's head.
The Buff-tailed Bumblebee nest in the airbrick on the back wall of the house has produced a small colony of worker bees that regularly makes trips to and from the nest hole.
They are feeding on some of the garden plants including the large Cotoneaster frigidus 'Cornubia'. The Flag Iris in the pond has been popular as a nectar supply but is now in it's last phase of flowering.
Summer butterflies have not been seen in the garden since the regular visits of the Holly Blue which stopped about the end of May.
A single Red Admiral butterfly was seen feeding on Escallonia flowers in central Lancing
A silken nest of the Lackey Moth was spotted in the Hawthorn tree a week ago and the stripey caterpillars are apearing in the garden.