Sunday, July 16, 2006

Butterflies in the garden






Have spent the day in the garden and the buddelia at the far end is coming into flower and attracting in the butterflies. Today apart from the gatekeepers which have doubled in number there's been a peacock, red admiral and tortoishell flyig around, another one which is one of the frittilary family, but couldn't get close enough to work out which, a blue one and the common or garden cabbage white. None of the stayed still to photograph unless they were on the buddelia on the neighbours side of the fence so I couldn't reach with the camera! Then there's this one, a small skipper butterfly, the only one that was still long enough to photo.

I will live to fight (or should that be photograph!) another day.

In the meantime Caitlin played in the paddling pool underneath our huge parasol, splashing around merrily.