The only drawback with our Norfolk holiday, was that I was expecting the Large Tortoiseshells in a local woodland to come out of hibernation around the time of our trip.
For the past few years, it has been pretty clear to some of us that the Large Tortoiseshell were breeding in the woodland, and as the butterflies come out of hibernation on the sunnier days in early spring, I was hoping to photograph them before they started to show wear and tear.
The week before our trip would have been ideal, but the two really good warm and suuny days I was busy with a doctor's appointment on one day and the car MOT on the other. Hence, I missed seeing them during that first week of emergence, and by the time we were back from Norfolk, the woodland was very busy with butterfly watchers. I did try the local woodland during the first two weeks back from Norfolk, but the weather on the days I was able to get there, was just not quite warm enough.
Not wanting to miss out totally on the Large Tortoiseshell, I did visit the main Kent colony with David. There we had no trouble at all in finding some to photograph, with around 7 seen, although it would have been nice to get them in slightly better condition.
However, I certainly wasn't worried about missing the best of the Large Tortoiseshell, as we had such a great time in Norfolk, seeing species that we rarely see. After all, I have now seen plenty of Large Tortoiseshell in the UK since my first one in 2020.
Large Tortoiseshell.
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