A Good Day for Butterflies

 I was carrying out a butterfly survey this morning at Edinburgh's Agroecology Project at Lauriston Farm. After a rainy early morning, the day turned into a perfect day for butterflies. I saw over 80 in total, including this Comma 

 and this Small Tortoiseshell 

The Big Butterfly Count starts on 18 July and lasts until 10 August. You can find out more about this excellent citizen science project here. My latest post on my Crafty Green Poet Substack focuses on butterflies too, you can read it here. You can subscribe to the Substack to receive each issue directly into your inbox, though of course you may already get too many emails!