Saturday 9 May 2015

I saw this Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

What a beautiful day to go walking up the Welcombe Hills. Three walks with the dogs today and enjoyed photographing spring flowers and this wonderful Small Tortoiseshell butterfly in Rowley Fields. It was sunning itself on the grass and in anticipation of it flying off I snapped it from about 2m away. It didn't seem to want to move and I managed to use the macro setting and get up very close. What a wonderful butterfly. It's one of our common ones.


Also in Rowley Fields I noticed two common flowers: the Cut-Leaved Cranesbill and the Common Vetch. The former is one of the Geranium Family , the latter, the Pea Family. You can easily see the characteristics they share with our cultivated varieties.
Both have very small flowers and small is often beautiful and the more so the closer you need to look.






Cut-leaved Cranesbill














Common Vetch


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