A Year in the Valley

So, this small tortoiseshell was spotted down at The Shack in Portmellon, while we were having a cheeky ‘wine break’. But it’s one of my favourite butterflies (I know I said that about the speckled wood, and I love the comma as well, and the common blue …). I mean, how can so much pattern…

My best photo of July was taken just after we returned from holiday (16 July) – a male beautiful demoiselle. I was hoping it might be a banded demoiselle because of the translucent bit at the base of each wing, but banded demoiselles have a definite ‘thumb print’ of shade on translucent wings. Things that…

Although my project has now finished, I am still spotting things in the garden and watermeadow and I was wondering what to do about that. So, I figured I would save the photos in a folder and maybe do a monthly post, now all the evaluating and concluding has finished. I couldn’t resist a photo…