Butterflies…

…don’t like rain, so I haven’t seen many – but the sun shone for a while today, and here’s what I found:

Painted Lady. A migratory species I’ve never seen before, but here in large numbers this year:

Gatekeeper

Speckled Wood. Loads of these around earlier in the year – I guess this is a second brood:

Peacock. There are usually dozens now the Buddleia is in flower; today I saw 2:

Cabbage White, laying eggs on “wild” oilseed rape. Hard to tell whether it’s a small or large white, but I’ll see what the eggs hatch into:

No sign of the usual Commas or Red Admirals, but here’s a Holly Blue I spotted earlier in the week (frustratingly they always seem to settle with their wings closed, so no chance of a photo of the bright blue seen in flight):

And, just for completeness, a Ringlet that I saw a couple of weeks ago:

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