Far From the Madding Crowd: Cows, Spiders and Butterflies day today :-)

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Cows, Spiders and Butterflies day today :-)

We went to Durlston Country Park today, beautiful sunny day and it is now the beginning of the wildflower meadow season, the Cowslips and Early Spider orchids first on the scene.

Can you spot the butterfly?

There was a few of these Speckled Wood butterflies today, I think they must have been the males because they appear to be fighting with each other.

Early Spider Orchid

Cowslip

A meadow full of Cowslip, the beginning of the wildflower meadow season

Common Dog-violet

3 comments:

holdingmoments said...: That field of Cowslips looks stunning.; 14 April 2016 at 06:42
Roy Norris said...: Not seen a Speckled Wood yet Lyn.
Always love your flower images.; 15 April 2016 at 02:02
Richard Pegler said...: It took a while to spot the butterfly in that first image, Linda - had to do the double-click to find it!

Wonderful images, as always. I don't think I've ever seen a Bee Orchid.

My best wishes - - - Richard; 17 April 2016 at 10:21

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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.