Thank you Wurzel, David and Goldie.
Long time no butterfly reports from me. I've been quite busy in other ways, not least with my father's book launch last weekend, for which we travelled down to Brixham, in Devon. In 1957, my father was one of the lucky crew of the replica
Mayflower,
Mayflower II, when she sailed from Plymouth (UK) to Plymouth (US) in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers. He kept a daily diary of the voyage in the form of letters to his mother, as well as shooting cine film and stills and making countless sketches of the ship and her rigging. We have just published these in a slim volume and launched the book at the very same moment the newly refurbished
Mayflower II was relaunched in Mystic. Next year is the 400th anniversary of the original crossing. If anyone's interested, there's more information on the adventure here:
https://www.mayflower400uk.org/news/201 ... -atlantic/
Minnie's favourite picture from the event:
Loads of red admirals zooming around Brixham (where
Mayflower II was built) but the weather wasn't good for butterflying and nor was there much time.
When I photographed this pipit in the harbour I took it to be a rock pipit:
It doesn't look much like the pictures now I compare it with them, though it has got suitably dark legs. Perhaps a birder could enlighten me.
Guy