WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2019

@Jenny namaste Some years ago we had a peacock settle in our garden and when it didn't go away we called the RSPCA. They had been looking for it for a few days so they came straight away and took it away. Apparently a Colonel owned quite a few of them and when he died most of them flew away! Ours was the last one to be found.

 

Some babies.


This one stopped for a quick snack


And a drink


Another baby




Sunbathing

 

His pollen pouches were full but I couldn't tell if he had another wing!


We now have hundreds of butterflies in the garden (only a few last week). Lots of Peacocks and Red Admirals, a few Fritillaries and Tortoiseshells, a few small blue ones (they were around at least a month earlier than the others) and numerous whites.

I don't know the difference between the whites and they rarely keep still long enough to focus the camera on them.
Some have a black edging around the tips of the wings, others have a black spot a little way in from the tip and a few have orange tips.








Yes, I know the paving needs repointing We'll do it after we've potted up the dozens of Verbena bonariensis that have seeded there. They sell very well