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A Colourful visitor !

While waiting in the goods loop at Plumpton in Cumbria for a passenger train to pass I was sitting having a brew with the windows open and in flew this little fella ! He or she seemed besotted with their reflection in the collar of the trains horn valve fixing. When the signal cleared for me leave after the train had passed I had to prize it off with a biro pen and assist it towards the open window. A brief love affair indeed !

 

According to my son's Butterfly book its a 'Red Admiral' and a summer visitor from the Mediterranean.

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Uploaded on September 15, 2009
Taken on September 10, 2009