Sunday 16 April 2023

Butterflies Galore (briefly!)

On Saturday 15th April, I was stuck indoor DIY as the shower rail had fallen off a couple of days previously and it was an obvious priority to get a new one fixed. Taking a break at lunchtime, first a Large White butterfly, then a Comma butterfly briefly settled on the flowers by wooden trellice, then both a Red Admiral and Peacock were seen briefly settled on the grass near the middle flowerbed. Finally and best of all a super lemon yellow Brimstone settled by the flowers near the trellice but had gone by the time I retrieved my camera. The Brimstone is our first in the garden since May 2020 (really the last year before Badger built the appalling estate behind us). Funnily enough we are rivalling Carlton Marshes no less for the number of butterflies species seen (they will soon surge way ahead though!). Plus these were my very belated first butteflies seen this year.

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