After a morning working at home I went for a walk around Eltham Palace Gardens.
Although the palace itself was very busy the more remote corners of the gardens are largely unvisited and so was a good place to do today’s butterfly count. There were large numbers of Gatekeepers and Meadow Browns plus Holly Blue, Large and Small White.


Meadow Brown
Photo by Tim Ebbs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebbsphotography/)
An Emperor Dragonfly was also present and it was great to see the Bees busily at work on the plants




