A Painted Lady butterfly was on a Hebe in the front garden; I spotted it from the kitchen sink preparing lunch.



I managed to get several photos when it decided that it would allow me to get near enough. I watched it chase away one of the blue butterflies (which are much smaller) and I found a scruffy Peacock on the same Hebe.



There were plenty of Peacock butterflies on the Buddleia bushes as well, plus 2 Red Admiral butterflies on Buddleia White Profusion. If this was one of the new brood of Peacock butterflies, it had had a hard life already.