I've certainly seen very few butterflies this year and so was delighted to see several peacock butterflies at various places in our recent trip to Dumfries and Galloway. They seem to have a keen ability to align themselves with flowers that bring out the detail of their colouring. Aren't they beautiful?
Then today on Arthurs Seat, just as I said to Crafty Green Boyfriend it must be too late for small copper butterflies we saw one.
And then another and another and another. Never have I seen so many at one time! One of my favourite little butterflies (and they are very little indeed!).
It was also lovely to see lots of house martins flying around Arthur's Seat today as indeed it had been to see lots of swallows in all the farm fields in Dumfries and Galloway while we were there.
I'll be blogging more about our trip to Dumfries and Galloway in the next few days, but meanwhile you can catch up with these posts here and here.
As ever, red text contains hyperlinks that take you to other webpages where you can find out more.
8 comments:
The peacock butterflies are amazing in their colors! It's a shame there are more butterflies everywhere!
Truly glorious.
And thanks for the Garden Path link, too.
The second in the sequence is my favourite, Juliet. Such beauty.
I just love seeing the butterflies, what a treat. These are beautiful butterflies, great shots.
They do beautifully extend the power and presence of the flowers. Have never seen these.
We are still full with butterflies here and hummingbirds though the mornings begin to stumble downward towards cool again.
Your photos of butterfly-flowers flowering are lovely.
I have never seen a peacock butterfly what beauties!!!
Wow, those peacock butterflies are beautiful. We haven't seen many butterflies either this year. We've had unusual heat and drought, which is probably related.
We had a Small Copper here in the garden on Saturday. Just returned from the inner Hebrides, where - sadly - we saw few butterflies, this time.
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