Well, I didn't get photographs of all 10 species of butterfly that I saw at the nature reserve today. My thanks to Sue and Bob who were our guides and Chris who acted as personal chauffeur.

The best photo in my opinion is this one of a Small Copper butterfly.



I also like this picture of a Large Skipper butterfly.



I managed to get this one poor photo of a Ringlet Butterfly. We also saw Small Heath butterflies and the first of the Meadow Brown and Marbled White butterflies, all from the Satyridae (Brown) family.



Large White butterflies were flying past in the distance and a Peacock butterfly was patrolling near the entrance. This site is the location for the scarce Marsh Fritillary butterfly; we saw several and I managed to get this not-too-good photo:



I'm hoping that the slides from my SLR camera produce a better picture! Hopefully, I'll also have Small Blue butterfly pictures on film too. I did get a digital snap of a Common Blue butterfly.



And just before we left, I took this photo:

Now I was puzzling at the time, and I'm still not sure what it is. I think that it may be an extra-large Small Blue butterfly. So butterfly lovers please click on "comments" below and add your thoughts: what are we looking at here?

The temperature today was 30 degrees and I am sunburnt even after applying factor 30 suncream!