Butterfly Nirvana.

It was a glorious spring morning yesterday and Susan and I were out walking on a local mountain. We had only seen a few Northern Wheatears, which was nice, but not a lot for this time of year. As we dropped down there were numbers of Orange Tip butterflies on the wing which was lovely to see. Then suddenly something caught Susan’s eye and she said ‘Look a Green Hairstreak’, these gorgeous little butterflies are hardly seen by us in the local area. I was busy getting a lens out of my bag and I said ‘Keep your eye on it’, we needn’t have worried because we then saw another one and then more and more until we estimated there to be between two and three hundred on the wing along a forestry edge. They were even trying to land in Susan’s hair as we stood there just watching a veritable spectacle of nature, never have we seen so many butterflies of one species in such a small area. It really made our day and more than made up for the lack of birds up on the mountain.