A Portland Walk

My latest Walk around the lower part of Portland revealed a few more butterflies than I have found recently.

Firstly, a view of the Portland Bird Observatory which of course use to be a lighthouse. 

The first Red Admiral I have seen this year that is one of the new brood.

I was pleased to observe this female Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly ovipositing at the edge of the newly created small pond.

To freeze this inflight dragonfly, I needed to set the camera speed to !/8000.

Below is the male which I already featured before in a previous post as well.

A male Common Blue butterfly was also very pleasing to find considering the lack of them recently.

One butterfly I have seen plenty of this year is the Small Heath.

This Skylark was singing away on a fence post.

This distant male Linnet below was also in good voice.

A welcome resting place for lunch.

This seat constructed of Stone has been there as long as I have visited Portland and probably many years before.

A good number of Gatekeeper butterflies was observed.

I would normally expect to see plenty of the Marbled White butterflies at this time. 

Unfortunately the only one I could find is this rather bedraggled male that has been around for a while.