Tag Archives: British Butterflies

Tuesday Treats: Flowers and…Things

Posted on April 21, 2026 by crispina kemp

A miscellany of photos from our walk on 10th April 2026. Enjoy The trees are greening nicely now. Though the earliest tree-leaves belong to non-native species 🔼 Here, horse chestnut and here 🔽 and here ⏬ sycamore 🔽 Our native … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Spring, Glorious Spring

Posted on April 7, 2026 by crispina kemp

Some of the flowers seen on our walk on 18th March 2026, and a surprise at the end. Come enjoy this glorious feast for your soul and your eyes… 🔽⏬ Is it any wonder these early flowering plants have found … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Sunny Side Up

Posted on January 27, 2026 by crispina kemp

A selection of photos from my deep-deep archive (10th May 2017) to bring a little colour and sun and freshness into our lives. Enjoy 🔼 Stitchwort… in company with vetch 🔽 🔽 Cuckoo Flower aka Lady’s Smock Two prickly bushes! … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers and Fungi

Posted on September 5, 2025 by crispina kemp

As the butterfly season draws to a close their place is taken by the first of the fungi, although Fungi Friday as a regular feature might be a month or so away. However, let’s enjoy what we’ve got today 🔼🔽 … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 29, 2025 by crispina kemp

Butterflies, Dragons and Damsels encountered on our walk to Tunstall Mills 26th August 2022. Enjoy It’s a white, large or small, I couldn’t say 🔼🔽 ⏬ but this one’s a speckled wood, undeniable 🔼 Comma 🔽 Apologies, I can’t identify … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 22, 2025 by crispina kemp

A selection of butterflies, damsels and dragons. And a treat from our archived walk on 13th June 2022. Enjoy 🔼 Small Tortoiseshell 🔽 Two moths’ caterpillar: A rather fussy-looking yellow-tailed moth 🔼🔽 and a mullein moth Butterflies: comma and 🔼🔽 … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 15, 2025 by crispina kemp

A selection of the butterflies we encountered on our walk 6th August 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Speckled wood  🔽 🔼 Green veined white 🔽 Holly blue 🔼 Gatekeeper 🔽 🔼 Common blue 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Silver washed Fritillary 🔽 🔽 Red … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 8, 2025 by crispina kemp

Some of the butterflies, damsels and dragons seen on our walk on 25th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼Small white and Green-veined whites 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Gatekeepers 🔽 🔼 Wall, showing underwing pattern 🔽 male wall ⏬female wall 🔼 Common blue male … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 1, 2025 by crispina kemp

More butterfly pics, these from our walk on 17th July 2025. Enjoy Peacock, of course 🔼 🔼 Small Copper (my favourite) 🔼 Small Skipper 🔼 Red Admiral (notice a maritime theme here?) 🔼 Small Tortoiseshell 🔼 Gatekeeper, very prolific this … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on July 18, 2025 by crispina kemp

Butterflies from our walk on 8th July 2025, Part 1. Enjoy 🔼🔽 Ringlet, our first this year. And then there were loads! Large skipper 🔽 the only one to allow a photograph Two very similar: Meadow brown 🔼🔽 and gatekeeper … Continue reading →

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