There was a Large White on the Candytuft just before lunch.

Went on a butterfly walk this afternoon with the Gloucestershire Naturalist Society. We saw 9 species: Common Blue, Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Marbled White, Painted Lady, Ringlet, Small Copper, Small Heath and Speckled Wood.



Here are links to my best digital images of the afternoon:
Marbled White
Common Blue
Meadow Brown
Common Blue - flying!
Common Blue
Common Blue
Small Heath
Marbled White - 3 of them
Marbled White
Large Skipper
Small Copper

Slightly disappointed with the quality of these images. I was very pleased with the last of the Marbled White pictures listed. I've never had a Marbled White in the garden in Cirencester (although I did get them in my previous garden) and last summer I was determined to get a photograph in the countryside. I was consequently delighted to find a small flock of them posing under the Ox-eye Daisy flowers where I was able to get quite close. We were discussing the idea that each year, it takes some practice to get back into the habit of photographing butterflies. Perhaps I need a bit more practice...