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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We've seen several peacock butterflies over the past few days ... not seen many around here in other years. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Wikipedia says "... the red admiral cannot differentiate between colors in the 590–640 nm range, which includes orange and red".
    Since I don't like (and don't have in my garden) any flowers with those colours, do I qualify for being a red admiral? ;)

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    maybe a peacock @Papi Jo?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm thinking, there's orange on their wings. Why does it make sense for them not to be able to see it? I hadn't got as far as thinking about flower colours😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    B3 said:
    I'm thinking, there's orange on their wings. Why does it make sense for them not to be able to see it? I hadn't got as far as thinking about flower colours😕
    It could be warning colouration to deter birds. Black and yellow/red is often used by other species for that purpose.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You could well be right  @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Fabulous weather today.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Can you send it here then @josusa47 .... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Fairygirl said:
    Can you send it here then @josusa47 .... ;)
    No, sorry, you'll just have to move to Llandudno.  It's a great place to live, especially for retired people like us.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    No thanks. I'd miss my hills  ;)
    It cleared up here anyway - not quite so windy as yesterday, and a good bit of sun, and I saw the pair of blackies having a bath in the pond just after I came in.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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