Red Admiral

A morning on indoor administrative type jobs and answering emails.  After lunch it was into the garden.

The task we had set ourselves required quite a bit of hardish physical work.  As a result a good number of tea breaks were required.  During one of these I a Red Admiral basking on a stone slab near the Buddleja.

Due to the time of year I "pruned" it our Buddleja has been slow to flower this year.  I am not sure if our lack of butterflies has been due to the late flowering or just a bad butterfly year.  All I have seen (and most of those toady) have been a few whites, a couple of Tortoiseshell, the Red Admiral and 3 Peacocks.