I've just returned from a holiday in Yorkshire. It has rained all day. Out in the back garden, and to my great surprise, I spotted one of the blue family - probably a Common Blue butterfly - on the blue hyssop. The butterfly was very wet, the garden was very wet and you should have seen the size of the slug on the patio! I tried to take some photos of the butterfly but failed to get anything but blurred pictures. Hopefully I will find this blue butterfly still there in the morning. Aren't I lucky to come home and find a resident butterfly?

I didn't see many butterflies whilst on holiday; I saw a few Meadow Brown butterflies at one place and the odd "Cabbage" White flying along the roadside verge.


I liked this photo because it captures the male in flight above the stationary female butterfly. Technically, it's not a good photo though.



I saw a Green-veined White butterfly (see photo above) whilst out walking yesterday. Green-veined White butterflies will be visiting gardens now (if it stops raining!) but unlike the Large White and Small White butterflies, do not lay eggs on our cultivated plants.