I had my kitchen window wide open today and just LOOK AT THIS!!! This is a Large Tortoiseshell Butterfly Nymphalis polychloros!! The reason I am so excited by this guy is that it is recorded as extinct in the UK and here is one resting on my kitchen curtains! We have the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Aglais urticae here and I have seen many but never, ever one of these! To put a dampener on all this fuss though, it is most likely he could have been reared by someone and escaped or released. Either way I am extremely chuffed and with this photograph I am noting him in my log book and reporting him to the Butterfly Count. Really made my day that has!!
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