Minsmere in July
As per usual when my sister visits, we planned an excursion to see both birds and butterflies , this time to Minsmere in Suffolk, Arriving around 1030 we started off with a circular walk around the scrapes where I was able to find 9 new birds for my list comprising little gull and common gull, sandwich tern, common and green sandpipers, spotted redshank ,little ringed plover, ruff and barnacle geese. After a bite to eat in the cafe we ventured partway around the reed beds where we surprised to find a rather faded and tatty white admiral butterfly nectaring on some brambles although we didnt find any bitterns or bearded tits which we hoping to see. On our return to the visitor centre the warm sunshine had brought out many butterflies and a hummingbird hawk moth and also one rather non descript butterfly we were unable to identify. As we got back to the car, I did wonder if it could be a greyling which was a a butterfly we were ...