Grizzled sex... damn auto focus, it preferred the tormentil!
Male Bullfinch keeping an eye out
Basking dingy, pausing from its frantic territorial circuits
Just back from Foulden Common, finally a sunny and properly warm day... A couple of grizzled skippers were hard at it in the first bay on the right, allowing a very close approach and deeply engrossed in ensuring future generations of their kind grace the common. Brimstone and orange tips also in evidence, plus singing reed bunting, sedge warbler and several bullfinches, including a particularly obliging male. The next bay along had a very fine dingy skipper, beating the bounds very zealously and seeing off intruders, not least a very large bumble bee....
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