Catching the sunshine

It was supposed to be a wet day. I planned to do various things like taking back a skirt to M & S and indoor stuff. But when I set off, the sun was shining so I put my camera in the car.

I stopped off at Pipe Hill Heathland before the sun went behind the rain clouds. Before I had gone very far, I noticed a couple of blue butterflies - and then some more.

I was actually able to do quite a butterfly count - two large whites, three meadow browns, a gatekeeper, four speckled woods - and my blues.

This is another angle of the female Common Blue - the one I blipped a week or so ago, but showing the brown underside of the wings. She was posing this morning.

The four males were also being very helpful - lovely flashes of pale and milky blue against the grasses.

and better still, an hour later and the rains still haven't arrived.