In the glorious gardens at Arley Hall in Cheshire, so many of the plants are magnets for bees and butterflies. For once I can post photos which don't require you to use your imagination to work out which insect is featured. This one is, of course, a Peacock:
The butterflies were pretty obliging and sat still on this flower whilst I got them in shot and in focus. I think this is a small tortoiseshell:
And the high point for me was these little chaps under the eaves, cheeping away as their hard working parents circled round picking up insects to feed them. I think they're House Martins; they have no red on their chins so they're not swallows, and the RSPB website says that if you can see the nest, it's not a family of swifts. Thank goodness for a 10x optical zoom.
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