To say the weather was changeable over the last few days which I’ve posted about is a bit of an understatement. Following on from cold, wet and windy weather and only a soaked Common Blue the next day got warmer and drier as the morning progressed. I had to drive to Bath Uni for work and somehow I managed to get through both Devizes and Bath city centre without the usual delays or Snails’ pace. So I arrived 10 minutes earlier than planned and with knocking off 5 minutes of my lunch that meant 15 minutes to walk up to the golf course to see what was about. This is a risky business as the route takes you past the where students dwell
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I had literally just set foot onto the woodland path when I spied a Peacock basking in a sunbeam. It had landed perfectly so that it was being picked out by a ray shining through the canopy. It was as if it was hogging the spotlight. As I crept up on it I noticed that one of its antennae appeared to be missing. It always surprises me the wounds that butterflies seem to suffer. Up near the top of the path where it is more wooded I stumbled across a pair of Specklies. They were very flighty, so much so in fact that I only one shot of one and three of the other. The first shot was a write off as when I checked it on the screen it just showed a brown blur that is a Specklie mid take off. Luckily one of the others was in focus as it rested on a nettle leaf. However it too was long gone in a very short space of time. Up on the golf course there were a few Whites in the distance bombing along but I didn’t want to risk concussion from golf balls so I didn’t stray from the path. In the end I’d walked a good couple of hundred metres round the edge of the course so with time ticking ever onwards and a distinct lack of activity I decided to retrace my steps. This proved to be a good move as on the way back I encountered another pair of Specklies (not in the wood unusually) and a Red Admiral. Frustratingly the Admiral wouldn’t close its wings entirely so I couldn’t get a nice closed wing shot that I was after. The best I could do was three quarters shut. Have a goodun
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