Lovely autumn weather on Sunday and Mark, one of our guides, came into the Wildlife Garden with his camera. The garden was designed to attract all types of wildlife which includes butterflies and it works!
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A red admiral which is a common garden visitor,
A male common blue which is less common in gardens but common at Saltholme on the bird'd-foot trefoil,
And a painted lady on the Verbena bonariensis.
And from a different angle. This is a migrant species and the first I have seen in the garden this year.
The Verbena is from South America but proves that a garden does not need to be planted with just native plants to be good for wildlife.
That's not all
Mark caught this migrant hawker dragonfly, and on Saturday Lockhart got this common darter.
There are many of these over the paths, often coupled in mating.
I'll end with this young little grebe also from Lockhart.
Thanks to our Guides for the photos