Big Butterfly Count

We returned from yesterday's walk in the woods above Dunrobin Castle via Golspie's Big Glen, and stopped to rest on a bench in a sunny clearing, time we used to count butterflies for Butterfly Conservation's 'Big Butterfly Count'. All we had to do was to sit for fifteen minutes and count the largest number of butterflies we saw at any one time of some twenty species.

It was rather depressingly easy as we only saw one species - speckled woods - and the most we saw of them at any one time was two - so filling in the form on the website - here - was very easy.

The count ends on Sunday so we may go to somewhere like the links at Littleferry where we stand a chance of seeing rather more species, though very few butterflies are out in this cool, occasionally drizzly weather.

We were up the same way again today, returning from a walk to the croft at Backies which sells big, brown, free-range eggs, and were thrilled to come back with a dozen.