Painted Ladies and Admirals

   
Despite the strong winds in the last week I still managed a few Butterfly species along with other common insects, some at Montrose Basin and others in gardens in Carnoustie and Arbroath.

In the same timescale I also manged to find the latest Great Egret at Maryton, it was sheltering from the wind behind a large tree out on the Basin mud, also a Water Rail and a Reed Warbler calling in the reedbeds.

Small White Butterfly

Small White

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Small Tortoiseshell

Red Admiral Butterfly

Red Admiral, the Lurgies

Painted Lady Butterfly

Ringlet Butterfly

Meadow Brown Butterfly at the Lurgies

Potato Capsid

Silver Y Moth

Davies Mining Bee Colletes daviesanus

Migrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae

Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris var flavicans

Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris var flavicans

Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris var  flavicans mating

Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris var  flavicans mating

Stripe-winged Drone Fly Eristalis horticola, at Lurgies

Common Sandpipers at the Lurgies