Saturday, August 11, 2012
Fellow travellers
On our walk today two orange butterflies flew, disputing, across our path and I thought at first they were both Commas. When they alighted I realised that one was larger and clearly not a Comma. It departed down the track and we lost it; but the silvery bars on the underwing point to its being a Silver-washed Fritillary.
This lot were just about to set off along the track dressed for some reason as French onion sellers. They greeted us with many a cheerful "Bonjour!"
The male Montagu's harrier was past us before we noticed it and even then I thought it was a gull! In the distance we saw two more, both dark birds.
All added interest to a lovely walk on a gorgeous summer's day; and this evening we flopped in front of the television and watched the last of the athletics. We both like middle distance running whether or not there's British involvement, but Mo Farah winning the 5,000 metres after already winning the 10,000 was really something.
// posted by Christine @ 3:39 PM 
