Butterfly time

Monday = well, we all know what it equals, so this was a shot snatched outside my working day. I'm not going to apologise that it's another butterfly, they seem to be having such a moment right now. I must have seen 15 varieties over the last 2 days and 10-20 of each.

Nor am I going to fret that it's the same kind I shot the other day, because for me fritilleries are the most spectacular woodland butterflies and I think this time I got a better picture.

And while it's confession time, the thistle is the same variety I blipped (in a different wood) on Saturday, so if anyone can identify it for me I'd be really grateful, I find thistle varieties particularly hard to tell apart. x