Gatekeeper

The weather has been much improved today, and I took the opportunity to visit the little churchyard in the forest. Despite it not being very sunny there were surprising numbers of butterflies flying including a very beautiful Painted lady (maybe the first of many), a male common blue, tatty Meadow brown and several female Gatekeepers.
The Gatekeeper or Hedge brown Pyronia tithonus, is very common in these parts and can be distinguished from the similar Meadow brown by the fact that it has 2 small white dots in the black eye spot on the forewing as opposed to 1. This is a female.
I have added a shot of the wasp mimic hover fly  Volucella inanis as my extra, and it is clearly showing the pale underside that separates it from the Hornet mimic Volucella zonaria.