Hiya
It's a gorgeous day here today, quite mild despite the breeze, very sunny, with a few clouds and – once more – a high-flying jet leaving its contrail in the sky. But the clarity of the sky while all the planes were downed due to the icelandic volcano cloud is not what I want to talk about just now.
What I want to share with you is the fact that I've just seen an Orange Tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) flutter past my window. They're quite rare here in Scotland, so this is a great observation.
It probably enjoys all the flowers that have been coming out around here. My own flower border has a fat and rough-leaved plant with forget-me-not flowers that served as a very successful food source to the Peacock butterflies last year; there are gorgeously scented wallflowers; there are still a few primroses and pansies galore – the garden also sports loads of blooming dandelion and daisies, etc etc -- photos to follow...
The view from my south window is simply divine just now, with the sun coming through the freshest of fresh green on all the deciduous trees. In the burn, a mother mallard is busy quacking for her brood of ducklings -- my neighbour told me she has ten to look after! And the trees are alive with birds.
And here's another observation: a bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) sitting briefly on the wire outside my kitchen window. I did take a photo through the window pane but my camera is really not up to this sort of photography. Hence this link.
Monday, May 03, 2010
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