It [butterfly] wasn't there when I came back from my walk @Slow-worm, so either it had managed to get warmed up enough in the sun and gone, or a bird had it for lunch. I think the lack of winter here [again] had possibly prompted an early awakening. We don't often see butterflies of any kind at this time of year. Cabbage whites are certainly very common though. The c. doves were in the conifer again today, messing about and generally making a racket. Far easier for them to make a nest in there than the woodies, who try -and fail -every year.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If that's a brimstone in my pic @LunarSea, it's very unusual for this part of the world. However, anything seems possible these days. I believe there have been some sightings in the east of Scotland.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes according to my book they are seldom found in Scotland @Fairygirl so maybe I'm mistaken. But it does look like one in your photo. Having said that I'm sure there must be a moth of similar colouring.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Brilliant - thanks folks. Not seen them here before, I'll have to do a bit of research now. I just hope that shirty blackbird didn't have it for a snack. I expect it's possibly down to climate change though? Lots of plants on our hills are struggling because the habitat and temps are changing, but they can't get any higher, making it very difficult for them to survive. Swings and roundabouts....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's -1°c in the garden at the moment and one of the hedgehogs is doing the rounds, can't believe it's out in this weather, guess it must be very hungry or very thirsty, good job I filled all the bowls this afternoon.
I took the dog for his walk a bit earlier than usual yesterday afternoon and as we got to the stream at the top of the road a bird flushed from the bank and crashed into the wire fence on the other side. It did a quick about turn and flew straight past us at eye level. I thought it would be a sparrow hawk but it was so close I could see its big long beak. That's the closest look I've had of the woodcock that roost in the woods up there. They fly from the woods up to the Marsh in the evening and I occasionally see them at a distance then but I guess the snow forced it to try the stream bed since it's stayed clear there.
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The c. doves were in the conifer again today, messing about and generally making a racket. Far easier for them to make a nest in there than the woodies, who try -and fail -every year.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
However, anything seems possible these days. I believe there have been some sightings in the east of Scotland.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Very rare in Scotland according to Butterfly Conservation, so lucky you if it does turn out to be one.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Not seen them here before, I'll have to do a bit of research now. I just hope that shirty blackbird didn't have it for a snack.
I expect it's possibly down to climate change though? Lots of plants on our hills are struggling because the habitat and temps are changing, but they can't get any higher, making it very difficult for them to survive.
Swings and roundabouts....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...