The play of light, Silver Birch, Strathspey The meadow is a wild grassland, an open space amongst the surrounding birch woods. There are old tumbled ruins suggesting that it was once farmed, or maybe a sheiling where animals were taken to graze during the summer. Earlier in the summer it was full of wild flowers, […]
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Scotch Argus butterfly on thistle
Today was the first sunny, warm day in … a long time! I took a short walk to a favourite natural meadow surrounded by birch woodland, full of wild flowers. There were literally hundreds of Scotch Argus butterflies flying around in clouds, landing 3 or 4 at a time on the thistles. However, they turned […]