Far From the Madding Crowd: Holly Blue butterfly

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Holly Blue butterfly

Holly Blue butterfly, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

Went to Durlston Country Park, saw a few butterflies; two Common Blues, an Orange Tip, two Small Blues, possibly a Clouded Yellow and a two Large Whites. This butterfly, the Holly Blue, was very obliging when I was taking pictures of it.

2 comments:

Roy Norris said...: Thats a lovely shot Lyn.
So where is all the others.?? {:)); 29 May 2013 at 17:42
holdingmoments said...: Great shot Linda.
I get these in my garden every year. Beautiful little butterflies.; 29 May 2013 at 21:46

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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.