Monday, 1 April 2019

SPRING BUTTERFLIES

Visited the gardens at Englefield estate with Sarah today, and whilst admiring the spring flowers was  able to add orange-tip and holly blue butterflies to my sightings list this year. Managed to get both butterflies settled for once to enable photographs. 

view from the gardens

holly blue

orange tip

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