Day 5 in @macgenie‘s photo challenge Determination. This is what the painted ladies need to migrate from North Africa to Scotland across multiple generations. Seems to be a big year for butterflies here painted ladies in particular.
Tag: butterfly
We had a walk round Loch Ardinning reserve this morning.
Turned out warm, still and clear despite the forecast.
Grass drying from the rain, sparkling.
Fair number of butterflies around, Small Tortoiseshells, Ringlets, some Whites and a lot of Painted Ladies. One or two others I didn’t ID, including a duller red/brown one.
Plenty of blue damselflies and some small red dragonflies.
Saw one wee lizard wriggling away through the grass and one on the wall. The latter looked as if it was regrowing its tail.
Common Blue
Bright with a fair breeze.
Meadowsweet, Thyme Bell heather. First ripe blaeberries.
A day for butterflies:
Ringlet, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Small Heath, Small Copper, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Green Veined White, Meadow Brown, Peacock Caterpillars
Green Veined White
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Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies. First try with my Selfie Stick acquired for just this sort of thing.
Peacock Butterfly
Ringlet- Kilpatrick Hills yesterday.
butterfly
In mum’s garden, testing posting from iPhoto to a blog via appleScript, and metaWeblogApi. Title of post comes from photo’s title and the body of the post comes from the comment.
Update 7 Dec 2024, replaced the photo with one dl from flickr.