Something New

With yesterday's considerable improvement in the weather - the thermometer reached a heady 19C at one point in the afternoon - and with light winds and some cheerful sunny intervals, we'd have expected to see some butterflies in the garden but we didn't see one. Frankly, I cannot understand this as there are so many flowers in bloom, flowers which the butterflies love.

We didn't take a walk yesterday and when I went out this morning the mist was down to treetops and the temperature struggling around 16C so I wasn't surprised to see only three butterflies; but I was surprised that all of them were ringlets.

There's a small area of meadow land on the coast path just north of Dunrobin Castle where we often see ringlets but they're unusual elsewhere so spotting these three was a treat.