Polling Day Skipper

Quite a marathon getting MrQ ready to go to vote but we made it. He managed a rather wobbly cross. It was very quiet. What has happened to the razzamatazz of general election days of old?

I took Mishka down the nursery on an Essex skipper hunt. We didn't find one but there were a few ringlet and meadow brown butterflies flitting about. I think I saw a gatekeeper too, my first this year. I also saw my first willow emerald damselfly of 2024.

I took the above shot of a large skipper on bramble this evening in the garden.