Christine's walking & birds blog

Thank goodness for the great outdoors. I drove to Rhue in the afternoon, but I'd just made my way down to the beach when huge dark clouds bunched up above the mountains and thunder rumbled ominously in the distance.

I noticed with surprise that there were tadpoles in a pool in a long narrow crevice in the rocks - though whether this was a genuine seawater rock-pool or a rain puddle, I don't know (but then we haven't had much rain recently).

I walked back up to the car through the bracken as the first drops fell and the thunder drew nearer, but got distracted by a large fritillary flying low across the path. The lovely underwing showed it to be a dark green fritillary.


I sat in the car and watched the storm break, with flashes of lightning and torrential rain; there was no wind, so as long as the clouds sat there, the rain poured down. It was quite nice, after the prolonged dry spell we've had, to see the hill streams come back to life.