The view from my bedroom window is now almost blocked by the Horse Chestnut, now in full leaf, and so hiding the activities of the nesting Rooks. Another pair have taken up residence this year, bringing the total to eight The 'candles' are also in full bloom, all 1,200 of them, each one bearing fifty or so pinky-white flowers. That makes 60,000 potential conkers, but very few of the flowers will be fertilised and manage to mature, so we will be lucky to find more than twenty or thirty later in the year. Still, these will be eagerly snapped up by the children, that is if the ladies who consider that conkers deter spiders don't get there first.
No sign yet of the leaf miners which are the larvae of the Horse Chestnut Moth, and which will disfigure the leaves as they eat their way between the two outer skins of the leaves.
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