Far From the Madding Crowd: Cerne Abbas and Durlston Country Park

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Cerne Abbas and Durlston Country Park

The butterfly season is moving on so yesterday we went to Cerne and found the Duke of Burgundy and today we went to Durlston Country Park, saw a few different species of butterflies; Adonis Blue, Small Blue, Green Hairstreak, Speckled Wood, Large White.

Duke of Burgundy

Dingy Skipper

Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock

Isle of White from Durlston Country Park

Wild Gladioli

Early Purple Orchid

Horseshoe Vetch

4 comments:

Richard Pegler said...: WOW, Lin - never seen a Duke of Burgundy Fritillary! What a marvellous butterfly.

Your flower images are beautiful too.

Best wishes - - - Richard; 25 May 2016 at 13:39
Roy Norris said...: The Duke. That is really special Lyn.; 26 May 2016 at 00:02
Roy Norris said...: Forgot to say I was at the Giant's viewing car park that same morning.
Didn't stop long enough to go butterfly hunting though.{:)); 30 May 2016 at 21:31
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Richard and Roy. That would have been amazing if we had bumped into each other that morning Roy, the world can be surprisingly small.; 30 May 2016 at 23:03

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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.