Fading Common Blue

... from last year probably. There aren’t many around yet. It is a great butterfly time between stormy showers thank goodness. I set off in the car to go on a mountain walk and turned back after three minutes: you can see why in the extra.

Thanks so much for placing yesterday’s mating butterflies on  the first popular page. The second extra today shows a different type of fritillary butterfly, small silver bordered, I think.

Have a great weekend too. I think it might have been a wise move to rest and read today (Just finished “Educated” by Tara Westover, her autobiography and a hard read) two days on the hill coming up with younger friends!