The benefits of being an early riser, Trevor! Lovely shots of those Small Pearls just waking up. Goodness knows what time I'd have to set my alarm to be there to see them like that...
It's good to be back!. For some reason my laptop wouldn't connect to the net from Thurs until tonight.
With the emergence of the Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary this last week at Park Corner/ Rowland Wood,
and the closeness of this site to my home, it is little wonder that I have spent quite some time there recently.
My visits have mainly been early am or late pm, so most of the images below are of resting SPBF.
Also over the past few days PCH/Rowland Wood has also played host to a strong UKB contingent!, including...……..
Neil Hulme, Gary Norman, James ( B.saurus ), Dave ( millerd ), Katrina, John W, Andrew555. ( Hope I haven't left anyone out! ).
Crickey Trevor that was fast - they've only been out for a couple of weeks there! I suppsoe they were making hay while the sun shone Still the Brown Argus in cop must have made up for the lack of Marshies and Tilshead must be booming by now?!
The best of the rest today.
Tilshead performed well early this morning, but photography was hampered by a strong breeze.
This site produced my first Small Blue of the year. Moving on, I later found a fabulous, fresh
' blue ' female Adonis Blue, and my first Large Skipper.
A great day spoilt by the wind, but very productive.
Some rather nice female butterflies there, Trevor. That Small Blue is nearly perfect, the Brown Argus has larger-than-average orange lunules and is quite striking, but that Adonis with unusual amounts of blue takes the prize for me!
Just catching up with all your recent excursions, loads of lovely photos of beautiful butterflies, many of which I don't get locally but always good to see.