Red Admiral. Photo: Brian Arnold

Brian sent in this photo telling us:

A bit like buses, not one, but two butterflies seen today, 12/02/2024 – they are the first I have have seen this year. This morning in our garden at Harman’s Cross, this Red Admiral posed on a piece of water pipe put there to tie plants to.  Perhaps it liked the warm metal surface of the pipe in the sunshine. Then in the afternoon we went to Kingston Lacy gardens to see the snowdrops and we got a fleeting glimse of a Red Admiral by the Japanese Garden.