Day 4 - Grass beneath my toes

Thursdays are the most difficult day for me to go out to play - work in the morning, then washing and cleaning day (which takes me a long time as I'm so particular!) so I didn't manage to actually do a specific wild thing today, but just did what I always do!

The first thing I do whenever I get home is take off my socks - whatever the season - as my feet like to be free! I love wandering about in the garden barefoot (I do that in all seasons too!) so today I spent the afternoon going in and out to the washing line, walking across the grass with my bare feet and stopping to watch the birds and look for insects in the garden.  I didn't take many photos today for a change.

At this time of year I always have to shake bugs off the washing before I bring it in - today I had 3 devil's coach horse beetles on my sheets - I've not seen one of those for ages, so three at once was a nice find! There were other beetles and bugs too. Indoors, I found two zebra spiders sitting on different walls (there's a nest of these right outside my bedroom window, and I frequently find baby ones on the sofas upstairs), a tiny blue flea beetle (which I took outside) and several little house spiderlings too. I left all the spiders where they were - they find there own way out when they're ready.

flea beetle

I see lots of these green/brown ground beetles on the path outside

Hopefully one day this month I'll have time for some proper bug hunting (I'm the kind of girl who keeps a sweep net in the boot of my car and a bug pot in my bag!) and there will be plenty more barefoot-ing for sure!