A greyish brown and part blue butterfly with black, white and orange markings on a purple flower

Common Blue. Photo: Mike Kirby

An orange butterfly with black and white markings

Painted Lady. Photo: Mike KIrby

Two photos from Mike sent in saying:

Here are a couple of photos taken at Southbourne during the last week. With all the excitement of Long-tailed Blues and Clouded Yellows it would be easy to have overlooked all the more regular species that have been showing well along the undercliff – along with Wall Lizards on the zig-zags.  For now though, it’s a case of “rain stopped play”.

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