What a different story today! From the start the day looked good, with the early morning sun shining on the woods at the back of the house...
Within five minutes of going out into the garden we had seen a couple of butterflies, a Xylocopa Violacea (see here) and one of Colin's favourites, a hummingbird hawk moth..
This narcissus appears to have grown an extra petal, but look closely and you'll see the Brimstone butterfly...
Here it's en route to the cowslips...
and it's arrived...
The Xylocopa Violacea was far too quick for me to photograph but I did manage a few slightly out of focus shots of the hummingbird hawkmoth as it went from the dafffodils to the hyacinths...
Later in the day we saw a Comma butterfly and Red Admiral neither of which kept still long enough to photograph.
Temperatures rose to 18c after lunch, the first warm day of the year. This, and the sudden flurry of insect activity took us by surprise - a very pleasant surprise!
Temperatures rose to 18c after lunch, the first warm day of the year. This, and the sudden flurry of insect activity took us by surprise - a very pleasant surprise!
3 comments:
I love the one of the Brimstone coming in to land at the Cowslips. The light is lovely and there is a nice capture of the action.
You seem to have had better weather than us -- we were in Tours all day, and although it wasn't cold, it was drearily overcast all day.
How lovely. We are freezing in snow and blizzards with a strong Easterly wind!
Thanks Norma. You and Peter are welcome anytime if you get fed up with the weather.
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