My journey as a wildlife photographer and observer goes on and hardly a day goes by without me seeing something that fascinates me. The blog is all about sharing my sightings with you, my readers and this inspires me to continue to look and get the very best photographs that I can and then post them here for you to enjoy. As the seasons change so does the wildlife that we see. It seems that a few birds are on the move now and there are a few different species of butterflies about such as the Small Copper, a pretty little insect, smaller than you would expect and if you don't see them often, or you haven't seen it before you may be surprised that it isn't as big as some of the more showy butterflies like the Red Admiral for example. This is the time of year that I see them, late August, September and October and I have often said that it is interesting that their colours are so similar to newly fallen Autumn leaves. However today in full sun and nectaring on lavender, they were very pretty indeed. Another remarkably small butterfly, and just as pretty is the Common Blue and I also photographed one today, again on Lavender.
Its said that Butterflies are in decline and not as numerous as they used to be but this year has certainly been a great year for them. I would suspect that this is down to the weather, we have had a great summer this year, unusually bright and sunny. The one below is a Wall Brown, a nice species.
I must just include another photo of the Willow Warbler that I saw the other day. It was a pretty little bird. In common with it's species it was calling it's plaintive single syllable call and showing very well. Like I said the other day, to my eyes it appears to be a juvenile bird, almost yellow in the right light. Males in particular are not particularly yellow like females and as I said, juveniles.
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