All those wonderful butterflies, and the dragons and damsels, we saw on our walk on 4th July 2026. Enjoy. Oh what a lot we’ve got!
4th July 2026
🔼 Speckled Wood
4th July 2026
🔼 Gatekeeper 🔽
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
🔼 Red Admiral 🔽
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
🔼 Large Skipper 🔽 Small Skipper
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4th July 2026
🔼 Small Whites 🔽
4th July 2026
🔽 My first ever sighting and photo of a Purple Hairstreak
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
🔼 Ringlet 🔽 Comma
4th July 2026
🔽 Painted Lady
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
🔼 Peacocks 🔽
4th July 2026
That’s the butterflies. Now for the damsels and dragons
4th July 2026
Dragonflies 🔼 Southern Hawker 🔽 female Ruddy Darter
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
🔼 Four-spotted Chaser. New sighting so I went a bit crazy taking photos 🔽⏬
4th July 2026
4th July 2026
Damselflies… Azure. Loads of these, though some might have been Coom Blues
4th July 2026
That’s all. A really good haul. Don’t expect that every week. But we hope to visit this walk again in late summer when there should be more dragonflies, and maybe we’ll actually make it out to Tunstall Mills
crispina kemp 
Oh wow, gorgeous. Really impressed with those, Crispina!
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I think I’ve said it elsewhere, it was an amazing walk!
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Oh, wow! What a fantastic collection!
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I think that’s the best ever!
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WOW!! how wonderful, it is upposed to be a bumper summer for butteflies this year 🙌
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Certainly looked it that day!
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