A sunny day so we decided to take the zigzag path above Chapel Finian to look for butterflies and get some good views.
Small Copper butterfly
Bee on toadflax
Red Admiral
Common Carpet moth
Peacock Butterfly
Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
Magpie Moth
Scarlet Pimpernel
Sneezewort
Windswept tree
Burdock
Ruin
Common Blue Butterfly
Common Blues mating
Green Grasshopper
Common Ground Hopper
Celypha lacunana
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
Common Carpet
Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
Small Copper
Dor beetle
View across Luce Bay
Parasol Mushroom (Ithink)
With 50p to show size
We finally managed to get to the monument
Scar Rocks, home to many seabirds and managed by the RSPB
Mull of Galloway
the monument…
…covered in lichen
Peacock on heather
Wall butterfly, they look quite plain with their wings closed but if you look closely they are very beautiful…
…and with wings open
Water mint
Common green grasshopper
The Scar Rocks
Magpie moth
Udea lutealis
Back on the shore
