Far From the Madding Crowd: Silver Washed Fritillary

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary , a photo by Lynmiranda on Flickr.

A beautiful sunny day today, we went to Powerstock nature reserve for a walk and saw a few of these butterflies at the reserve.

4 comments:

Roy said...: Lovely to see one of these Lyn.
I must get to Powerstock one day when I am in Dorset.; 15 July 2011 at 00:05
Richard Pegler said...: Beautiful butterfly and beautiful image, Linda. It's too many years since I last saw one of these.; 15 July 2011 at 07:40
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy and Richard.; 15 July 2011 at 13:57
Gerry Snape said...: I had a comma up here in the north this week on the budlia. I think they are not usually so far north? but I doubt that we would ever have a silver washed fritillary. lovely to see one.; 15 July 2011 at 22:01

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.