Excursion Notes 2025
3rd:
Happy New Year! A mild sunny afternoon and the first butterfly of 2025
- a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). The view from the path, above where
I saw the butterfly is here (photo).
In addition, a bit further on during my short walk, a Humming-Bird
Hawkmoth buzzed over my head and settled for a few seconds on the stone
wall here (photo)(photo).
13th: We continue to have
fairly cold nights (around -2 - 0°C ), but warm sunny afternoons
(7 - 9°C) and unsurprisingly the occasional Red Admiral can be found
during the warmer part of the day. Today, one flew by me in this
vineyard near my house (photo).
Sorry, no photo of the Red Admirals - the didn't stop for a photo
shoot! Last picture of one, however, was two weeks ago (December 30th
2024) in the middle of Venice (See excursion notes 2024 for the photo)
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