This week is the start of a national butterfly survey. We are encouraged to go outside for 15mins or so and count them. My count today was 6 small tortoiseshell and a couple of small whites on the wing.
Tortoiseshell butterfly on wild scabious flower.
A rather pale tortoiseshell, weather beaten sunning and feeding today in the garden.
Small tortoiseshell thrusting its proboscis to reach the nectar in this thistle flower-head.
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