Far From the Madding Crowd: A Brimstone Butterfly in My Garden!

Monday 19 August 2013

A Brimstone Butterfly in My Garden!

Brimstone butterfly, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

A fantastic day of butterflies in my garden today!!! This Brimstone was a surprise, it's a first time I've had this butterfly in my garden. My butterfly count today on my buddleias:

8 - Small Tortoiseshell
3 - Peacocks
2 - Silver-washed Fritillarys
1 - Red Admiral
1 - Brimstone
4 - Large Whites

2 comments:

FAB said...: Gorgeous shot Linda. Your Buddleia must be more welcoming than mine .. just a few White patrolling the veg patch here today!; 19 August 2013 at 21:14
Richard Pegler said...: What a fantastic butterfly to have in your garden - but I'd be even more excited about the Fritillary!!

Great stuff, Linda!; 20 August 2013 at 18:57

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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.