Yesterday evening I made a trip out to Waldridge Fell in search of the purple hairstreak, which has been sighted there a few times recently. I did manage to find a good number of oak trees but did not see the butterfly. I found some consolation in my first sighting of the wall brown butterfly this year, basking on a bit of open grassland - plus a couple of meadow browns and the inevitable whites and speckled woods.
There was however a moment of humour later when I headed down a woodland path and saw what I took to be a small brown dog trotting towards me. Its ears seemed to be getting larger as it approached when it suddenly stopped still to eye me over, metamorphosed into a hare and trotted off casually in the opposite direction.
Otherwise it has been bits and pieces - a red admiral flying over the tennis court or a hayfield and a peacock on a quick walk along the river at Prudhoe.
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However the main sense of success of the week also came yesterday. One sprig of buddleia I brought over from Dumfries unexpectedly survived the harsh Spring weather and has produced a single, long flower. As I arrived home around lunchtime there was a red admiral on it, which I disturbed in passing. I went into the house to fetch the camera and there was a peacock hanging on it upside down instead.
A satisfying moment...
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