Speckled Wood 19-4-11

Speckled Wood Butterflies are here again ,a short walk yesterday afternoon to have a look for these fantastic Butterflies saw my first one as it skirted along the tops of a hawthorn till it dropped down and settled  some damage in the wing on this one , but as I walked on found more and more twice had them spiral upwards right in front of me , I counted 10 in all probably a lot more as it was late in the day, last year the first one I found was on the 21 May ?, lots ,and lots of Whites on the wing also Peacocks and a single Comma !

 Speckled wood , they seem to like bramble.

Two spiral upwards