I saw a Speckled Wood butterfly and loved those Oxeye daisies in Rowley Fields

Emerging in April the Speckled Wood may well be one of the first butterflies you will see in the Spring. It really does prefer the shady glades and half light of leafy lanes where it's dappled wings sometimes make it difficult to spot.

I saw this beauty in the reservoir area of the Welcombe Hills. It was late afternoon and it found a spot to catch the sun amid the lengthening shadows.

 Aren't the Oxeye daisies in the margins of Rowley Fields splendid this year? I remember just a few years ago seeing a small patch by the benches at the top and now they have spread and thrived all along the side by the golf course. The bees and butterflies favour the bramble blossom and in those patches in Rowley Fields when the sun is on they are alive with insect activity. 
 The Oxeye daisy doesn't have the same attraction so it was good to capture this bumblebee on one.