Today we went to RSPB Strumpshaw Fen in Norfolk (about an hour up the coast from Walberswick). We were hoping to see (and photograph!) a Swallowtail butterfly for which the reserve is famous. Last year on a visit here I had seen one as soon as I got out of the car in the car park but never saw one again. Well this year we did the same trail (but in reverse) and struck lucky seeing one at close quarters.
We saw other butterflies and dragonflies and damselflies too. I shall have to get my charts out later to try and identify them but supper at the pub is now beckoning. (Now added but waiting, and hoping, to be corrected!)
Male swallowtail butterfly
Male swallowtail butterfly
Male swallowtail butterfly
Painted lady butterfly
Male brimstone butterfly
Painted lady butterfly
Male banded demoiselle damselfly
Male black-tailed skimmer damselfly
Female four-spotted chaser damselfly
Male speckled wood butterfly
Male black-tailed skimmer damselfly
Male four-spotted chaser damselfly
Male red-eyed damselfly
Male large red damselfly
Male common blue damselfly
Male red-eyed damselfly
Marsh orchid
Ragged robin
Great crested grebe and offspring
Female blackbird
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