Here are a few things I've noticed recently.

• Blimey it's hot! The grass is dying and many trees are dropping leaves. And perhaps weeks of 30c yet to come.
• Butterflies are about – mainly small tortoiseshell in my garden.
• Loads of bumblebees of various sorts, but not so many honey bees.
• Crane flies are the most numerous thing to fly in our open windows in the evening.
• I hadn't really seen any wasps until about a week ago, but now quite a few of them are about, including a nest in my roof, right next to the velux window. Great.
• Blackbirds and wood pigeons are particularly populous on the lawn right now, but maybe that's just my lawn.