If you have been reading bird blogs for a while, you will notice the seasonal changes. It goes a little something like this.
Autumn – wow! Birds are brilliant and my patch is full of migrants and stuff! I’ll write about it! It’s windy!
Winter – wow! Birds are brilliant and my patch is full of winter birds and stuff! I’ll write about it! It’s cold!
Spring – wow! Birds are brilliant and my patch is full of migrants and stuff! I’ll write about it! The days are getting longer!
Summer - Oh, all the summer birds are breeding and I can’t see them for the trees. Boring. Have you seen my butterfly/moth photos?
For the sake of compliance in my little theory, here is another blue butterfly with a massively overexposed background. I think it is a female blue one, but it would seem that my bug book is a little sexist and doesn’t like pictures of certain female butterflies.
butterfly doing girly blue
As a bird blogger myself, of a sort, I would like to say that I certainly do not switch to bugspotting. Once the Vernal Equinox has passed, I spend every waking hour spotting car numbers, bus numbers and train numbers. I generally find I get much the same “buzz” out of this as I do when watching our feathered friends and I don’t get my boots covered in cow-muck and such-like. I still carry on writing a load of old crap on my “bird” blog though, just to keep in touch. Best wishes from Ray ( ColdScreen Guards, Retired Hurt)
thought you might like this :-
http://flic.kr/p/876Q78
imho June’s the best month by far for local patch birding.
I did! Inventive, resourceful retards.