:) Yes Danny I really do feel privileged. It was one of those special, magical moments that come along now and again. It rated with the time I sat next to a fence and several wasps repeatedly came to it to munch the wood to take back to build their nest. Every time I see some wood with parallel line...

Thanks Alex. That makes perfect sense. It must have been competely exhasted to have let me pick it off my tyre and the DROP it on the ground, laying there for a few minutes and THEN wakng up and flying away!! What I can't understand is why I didn't recognise it as a butterfly - I'm not a buttefly en...

I live in Norfolk, but I can't say they are prevalent here. I've never seen one before.

Thank you both for your input. I'm sure now that it was the Camberwell beauty and I feel quite privileged that it chose my car tyre to rest on. I see it's a rare migrant! I'm glad too that I didn't just drive off and ignore it!!

:) This week there was a large black butterfly or moth on the tread of my tyre. It blended in so well. I thought it was a wad of wet leaves so picked it off and dropped it on the ground. I still thought it was a wadge of wet leaves. As I went round the car to get in I then saw it's antennae and it s...