Gatekeeper
Our garden was alive with butterflies and other flying creatures this afternoon. I counted at least 10 peacock butterflies on the buddleia, and lots of gatekeepers preferring the hemp agrimony. But most of the gatekeepers were keeping their wings folded, whereas this one - in a shaft of sunlight, was clearly sunbathing.
In extras is a bird - not the best shot, but it would keep moving about. It looks to me like a wren, but its call was not the typical wren song - more a persistent chirp chirp chirp. Very loud. And the wren was much more daring and cheeky than I usually associate with wrens. It came much closer than this, but was constantly on the move, so I didn't get any photos. I did wonder if it was a juvenile robin, but it has the typical upturned tail of the wren.
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