26-05-26 After all the complaints about the weather, along comes a day with another more-of-the-same iffy forecast. So I plan nothing more ambitious than an afternoon in Warriston. The sun comes out and the insects clearly got the email because they come out too. Nothing particularly exotic but things were on the move and I had a brilliant time trying to photograph them, in decent light, for a change.wren with what might be a butterfly caterpillarI went to the variegated holly tree. I'm not sure why it is bustling with wildlife there, but it is. Probably the trees, and the shelter trees give birds. And the holly blues love a holly tree - although I think they have come and gone as I haven't seen any for a while. To be replaced by a few whites and a large white that flip-flops out the tree next door to the holly, and flits about doing an extensive circuit looking for love. Similarly a red admiral perches in the centre of the nettle and bramble jungle below, at full stretch of the long…
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