Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Allegedly it's a swarm year for painted lady butterflies, but I've not seen to many of them. I remember about thirteen years ago (perhaps?) there were loads of them.

Jersey tiger moth in Devon last week, and a rock pipit. The latter unremarkable other than I've not really seen (or perhaps noticed) these before.

Also a siege of herons flying past us along the dart river near Dartmouth. My daughter counted 27 of them all flying together!
Siege of herons - not heard that one before. Thanks, Noel!

Echo the comment about the butterflies - loads of them, including plenty of painted ladies. After Sunday's Kong Mini MM we went for a swim in Crummock Water and went past a damp meadow that had hundreds of Peacock butterflies on the devil's bit scabious.