At last - the butterflies have found the verbena that was planted for their pleasure, first a white and then, with considerable excitement on our part, a....
We haven't seen a comma since our days in Felixstowe, and the sudden appearance of this one seems typical of what is happening this year: when the sun comes out - it was a rare 18C in the garden this afternoon - just a few butterflies are on the wing, one or two of each species. So, this afternoon, as well as the white and the comma, we saw just one peacock.
Oh, I do like the Comma. When they fly, the orange rust colour glows so brightly compared to the small tortoiseshell. As a boy of the sixties, I always wanted to see a Large Tortoiseshell butterfly. Without the immediate reference of the internet in those days, it was years until I found out that they were extinct in Britain.
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