Crab Grab

I've been looking forward to capturing my first female orange tip butterfly of the season. Sad that it was this way. :( A female Misumena vatia crab spider was lurking, well camouflaged, on a freshly opened sheep's parsley flower and grabbed her as she landed for a rest.

Lovely dogwalk with my daughter and our hounds this morning. We saw a sparrowhawk causing consternation amongst the rooftop birds and a lone sea swallow (common tern) over the lake, freshly arrived after its long journey from west Africa,