When I took this photo in Monday morning's sunshine this was the only red admiral left visiting our garden, their numbers having fallen from five over the previous few days; and when we woke this morning to find that we'd suffered a sharp overnight frost in temperatures down to 3C I certainly didn't expect that....
....by early afternoon, even though the temperature had risen to 13C, there would be two red admirals feeding on the verbena.
This seems to me to be very late indeed for butterflies to be on the wing in the north of Scotland - but then this has been a very peculiar summer - in the sense that we really have had a summer, which is now progressing in to days of alternately warm and cold conditions.
However, imagine my further surprise when....
....I found a tortoiseshell feeding with the red admirals, for we haven't seen a tortoiseshell in weeks.
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