Derek was surprised to see this Red Admiral and Jersey Tiger Moth side by side in his garden near Dorchester on 13/08/2017 .
He told us the Red Admiral flew off the second after he took this photograph, so he must have been very pleased to be in the right place at the right time, as is so often the case when spotting nature.
The Red Admiral is a common migrant, sometimes successfully hibernating over winter in the UK in outhouses or woodstacks, but the Jersey Tiger Moth is almost certainly a summer visitor usually arriving late July early August.
A Red Admiral spotted early in the year in the UK is almost definitely one that has hibernated over the winter.