Sitting in the holiday cottage garden on the Isle of Mull enjoying the warm sunshine, watching the tide come in and the bees buzzing around the clover on the lawn,
a small heath butterfly landed near by,
so a butterfly hunt followed to see what else we had fluttering around the garden. We followed the small heath to a patch of flag iris to the rear of the garden, and up flew a blue! with the help of Mr S who followed the blue butterfly with his eyes and called up directions, I picked my way carefully through the irises to get to the blue. On my way I caught a flash of orange out of the corner of my eye, so I then ignore Mr S's directions and veer off to hunt for my orange butterfly calling down to Mr S' I think we have a frit!!!!' Mr S doesn't hear me and is still giving me directions to the blue - 'But it's a frit!!!! I find it sitting on a leaf close to the ground surrounded by iris leaves and Mr S comes up to see what I have found. Sure enough it was a fritillary, a beautiful small pearl bordered fritillary -
We never did get to the blue!
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Monday 24 June 2013
Amazing what you can find on fence posts
Isle of Mull
Sunday 23 June 2013
Two ferries to Mull
We left home last Sunday at 5.30am and arrived at Bunessan Isle of Mull at around 4pm. We chose to take the Corran ferry followed by the Lochaline ferry across to Mull as they are short crossings and we weren't sure how our dog would cope with the longer crossing from Oban, as it was we chose correctly, she was much happier staying in the car - tried getting her out on the Lochaline - Fishnish crossing but claws stuck in and we couldn't encourage her up the stairs at all! Still a very scenic journey though - I only took pictures on and around the ferry as our main objective was to get there!
how jammy were we, first on, first off! |
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