Black-headed Gull - Larus ridibundus
At first I thought I was watching a few gulls trying to chase and catch what I thought was a leaf being blown across the water on one of my local reservoirs until it got closer when I noticed that it was a Red Admiral butterfly and not a leaf. I lost count at the amount of times the butterfly was dived bombed by the gulls and even was submerged a few times but try as they did and thanks to the strong wind blowing across the water the butterfly made it to live and tell the tale and perhaps to even got to hibernate and come next spring start of the next generation of Red Admiral butterflies.
Black-headed Gull - Larus ridibundus
At first I thought I was watching a few gulls trying to chase and catch what I thought was a leaf being blown across the water on one of my local reservoirs until it got closer when I noticed that it was a Red Admiral butterfly and not a leaf. I lost count at the amount of times the butterfly was dived bombed by the gulls and even was submerged a few times but try as they did and thanks to the strong wind blowing across the water the butterfly made it to live and tell the tale and perhaps to even got to hibernate and come next spring start of the next generation of Red Admiral butterflies.