The weather turned fine, but my muscles were still sore after a long run where I took a few mis-steps in the long grass. So I walked through a rather drab and uniform cemetery compared with the constant living changes of spring.
I walked through the threatened grasslands of the sports hub site, where butterflies - skippers, large whites, small tortoiseshells, meadow browns, ringlets, common blue and small heath were all on the wing there.
I walked through the estate, where I always look for life in unusual places.
And then I walked through Devon Park, where butterflies and damselflies flew, adoring the nettles like the least tacky QVC jewellery you've ever seen.
Even at home, a forest shield bug sat on a sycamore leaf, and helped me read Empire magazine in the sun.
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| This bluebottle can't read this Sconce Park sign |
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| Small copper on the Sonce fortification |
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| Female banded demoiselle chomps down on a mayfly of some kind |
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| Female common blue damselfly, I think, on Devon Pasture |
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| Grasshopper on the Sconce |
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| A tricky subject - small heath on the Sports Hub site |
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| Large skipper |
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| Another large skipper - the small ones don't let you get close! |
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| Common blue at the sports hub, wing undersides look a little dully coloured |
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| You see I think these underwing spots are wrong for a common blue, but nothing else you'd see round here fits |
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| Forest shield bug on sycamore |
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| Not the prettiest face |
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