Tag: butterflies

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3x3 grid of 8 images round a central map of where they were taken. From Top left: Painted Lady; peacock butterfly caterpillars; small skipper; Small tortoiseshell; map;2 Meadow Browns mating; small blue; ringlet; red admiral

Short walk to Greenside reservoir this morning. Warm, mostly sunny. Lots of butterflies around.

I’d guess I saw over 200 ringlets; a lot of painted ladies & meadow browns. A few common blues & red admirals ,one small tortoiseshell & a white of some sort. A few fritillaries bright orange and zooming around, never posing. I saw one I’d never seen before. It look to me, after consulting my book & the web, like a small skipper. According to the same research this doesn’t seem to be where they are expected? Unfortunately my camera threw an error while I was trying to get a different angle.

Butterfly, looks like a small skipper, on a gras head.
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A grid of pictures. 3x3. From top left: lesser celandine; blackthorn; the allander water, a small river; wood anemone; am map of there the photo was taken; a path with flowering blackthorn on each side; a goosander; green veined white butterflies; peacock butterfly.

Milngavie to home via the Kelvin. Blue sky, sunshine & a cool breeze. Lesser celandine, wood anemones & lots of few-flowered leek. The blackthorn well out, some willow catkins.
A few peacock butterflies & a green veined white. A glimpse of a kingfisher on the Allander water. Bit of bird song, chiffchaffs, blue & great tits, goldfinches & more. A couple of peewit in the distance.

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grid of 9 images: From the top left: Red-tailed bee on knapweed, robin, heron, osprey, map of where whotos were taken, white butterfly, two little egrets, two little egrets again, meadow brown butterfly. I got to watch the osprey and egrets fishing for a while.
I had a walk round Ardmore Yesterday. From the top left: Red-tailed bee on knapweed, robin, heron, osprey, map of where whotos were taken, white butterfly, two little egrets, two little egrets again, meadow brown butterfly. I got to watch the osprey and egrets fishing for a while.