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.
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.