The Acorn Trail archive

Monday March 31 2008
For as Surely as Spring will come...

Butterflies!
My first sighting of a butterfly this year...
It was Just the one solitary butterfly (see left), so I feel my find was rare, well to me anyway, and still only in March. I’m not quite sure how early other species start to appear. Maybe you’ve seen the odd Brimstone around your gardens in February?
Anyway, the species I spotted was a Peacock Butterfly, around the same area I’ve spotted them in the last couple of years, where I’m likely to see pairs of Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Orange tip, Speckled Wood and of coarse the Peacock Butterfly, among others.

Birds...
Spotted some blue-Tits, as usual, a Robin of coarse. But a small brown bird eluded my lens, although I did technically spot it, although could I identify it, maybe a Wren? Although I’m not sure. It stopped in a tree right next to me, unfortunately by this time, a neighbour whom was out walking his dogs, that spoilt my isolation and privacy had put me off my stride, with his dogs barking very aggressively at me and not on leads (not saying they have to be!) the day was marred slightly, there whereabouts would now dictate the path I take. Luckily (half an hour later) I’d bagged film of the Peacock Butterfly before the dogs caught up with me on their way back from the direction I was heading in, hence my change of route.

All photography by Geoff

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