Right then, after a short break, blogging may resume at pace. [You never know]
Why more? Well, not only 'cos I said so last time, but also because when you fire off the sunny side of two hundred photos in a day, you feel the need to share a few..
o:)
So, we return to a sunny day in Dorset...
Giant's Hill
[yes, there]
I can't resist putting up a Duke, even though you've seen this one before;[yes, there]
The Duke
Small Copper.
Very fond of this leaf
Radioactive!
Green Hairstreak.
Dingy Skipper.
Very dark one
Another Dingy
Grizzled Skipper.
I kept calling them 'chequered'...
[you can understand why!]
Brown Argus.
Nice ID shot, right?
Spotted Orchid
The Ridgeway.
Count the tumuli
Dingy Skipper.
Much brighter than at Cerne
Brown Argus
Another, also on Kidney Vetch
Which is the food plant of the
Small Blue
Fresher one
Battered one
Small Blues outnumbered all other butterflies combined, several times over!
Common Blue.
Striking a pose
Columbine
Whitethroat
Right. Time for some serious scenery.
Maiden Castle.
Too big to fit in shot
from less than 5 miles...
So, let's toddle up, shall we?
You've climbed the first rampart!
Oh, there's the second.
After that big ditch.
You're over the second rampart!
Oh..Steeper ditch. Third rampart...
Reverse of the first shot
[Also ::dies::]
So that's the fun way in. There are also two more circuitous though less heart-troubling routes, leading to proper entrances;
The East Gate
Ambling back along the middle rampart
Before plonking down on the outer
[which has the odd Hawthorn]
[which has the odd Hawthorn]
Sometimes archaeology is subtle;
shifts in slope and crop marks,
sometimes....
Itsa Buzzard!
Corn Bunting.
Showing characteristic 'tail-down' pose
Shades of brown, yes
but hardly drab.
Cowslips and Spotted Orchids.
All over the outer ramparts
Also all about - though harder to spot - were these;
Eyebright sp.
Colour variation / another sp.?
[there's '18 very similar', apparently]
And again?
Germander Speedwell
[Much dinkier than at Exminster]
:)
Be Seeing You...
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