Many thanks to Sheelagh Kerry of the Monmouthshire Meadows Groupfor taking us around the meadows this morning and demonstrating just how varied “grassland” can be. Three species of clover, three of buttercup and more than ten of grass can be found in what might look, at first sight, like a uniform habitat.

However we were all distracted by the star of the morning’s walk – a magnificent eyed hawk moth. Grassland may be the home of lots of little white moths, but this definitely isn’t one of those.