With the nice sunny and warm weather a trip was made to Holkham today to see what butterflies were performing.
A White Admiral was seen along the track along from Lady Annes Drive, and then arriving at the bench just before Washington Hide a White-letter Hairstreak was immediately located on the flowering privet there. A number of others were seen flying round the tops of the elms opposite with the occasional one also coming down onto the privet, but frustratingly they would always land just too far away to get a decent pic, however one eventually gave itself up and landed in an accessible area to get a nice close-up of it.
Small Skipper, Comma, Red Admiral and Meadow Browns were also feeding from the same bushes as was a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. A Spoonbill flew across the freshmarsh, 3 Crossbills flew over the pines calling, a Hawker Dragonfly sp. was seen briefly around the treetops, and an even briefer flypast of what was probably a Broad-bordered Bee Hawkmoth all added to the abundance of life there.
A walk further along to the dunes revealed good numbers of Dark Green Fritillaries were present and with careful and patient stalking I finally secured a few pictures with a couple reproduced below.
