We're a couple of days off the end of September and the butterflies are giving us seemingly endless pleasure. I went for a walk this morning and saw not one, despite the warm sunshine and light breeze, but on returning to our back garden I counted six red admirals - there have been that number or more in the garden almost throughout the month - and....
....a small white, one of three whites that have been busy over the last couple of weeks laying eggs on our much-loved and now very chewed broccoli.
To my surprise, a speckled wood, a rare visitor, came in to the garden and spent some time on a slab of concrete warming up, while....
....a single peacock put in an appearance: we haven't seen one of this species in several weeks.
Then, to make the day very special, we spotted....
....a painted lady - again, a species which we haven't seen for some time and had assumed was well on its way back to Africa.
So I think we can sit back and feel quite pleased with ourselves for the garden we have created since moving in to our new house in January of last year, for it has also attracted a pleasing variety of other insects - I haven't even started to photograph the mass of bees, bumblebees, hover flies, wasps and other groups which have moved in with us. Only one has been a disappointment, the....
....dragon- and damselflies. This common darter was resting in the middle of the track not two hundred metres from the house this morning, but we haven't seen one actually in the garden. There's probably a good reason: the one thing that hasn't thrived in this warm, dry summer has been our pond, which has been dry for months.
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