🥂Swifts and Summer Sweetness
plus some moth-based musings
Hello, I’m Charly, a botanist and lunar lover based in Sheffield. I’m on a mission to adopt a slower pace of life which is more in sync with the energies of the seasons here in the Northern hemisphere. Subscribers enjoy full access to my bi-monthly newsletters. I also offer online courses centred around the Wheel of the Year which you can find out more about here.
Two special moments occurred this week. The first was that the Elderflowers here in Yorkshire have begun to bloom (yay!). The second is that I spotted (or rather heard!) the first Swifts swooping overhead - two annual events in Nature’s Calendar that herald the beginning of Summer in my almanac. If you’re not familiar with how to tell apart Swifts, Swallows and House Martins, Cornwall Wildlife Trust have made this handy infographic.
☀️Spring or Summer?
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the different ways of marking the passing seasons here in our temperate latitudes of the U.K so here’s an excerpt from a previous newsletter:
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