Speckled Wood. Photo: Penny Hawes

Penny photographed this Speckled Wood at Stoborough Heath on 27/10/17

It could easily have been missed as the seed head and butterfly are very similar colours, but what a pleasing photograph it makes.

Penny tells us that there were lots of them present on what was a lovely, warm, late October day. This was indeed a late sighting from a second brood, usually in flight from late June to early October.