Dairy Farm Nature Park

The new Dairy Farm Nature Park is totally awesome. Its

really the place for a butterfly lover and I have yet to see the

rare dark blue jungle glory there. Well, on my trip there, I

saw quite a few butterflies. We started at car park B. Walking

into the forest, chocolate grass yellows are always there to

welcome you. Here, pictured puddling with a three spot g. yellow.

Then, a passing swallowtail caught my eye. The blue helen!

I was really excited but it flew off into the canopy before long.

I did not have to walk very much before a glistening caerulean
showed up. I watched it for a while but couldn't shoot it as

it kept flying. Just then,(this is a moment of excitement) a rare and

sought after fluffy tit settled to sunbathe, as below.

It was awesome but like the the helen, it flew off shortly.

Feeding on plant sap a few meters away was a faded

common posy.

Notice that the tail has been cut off. Probably during a bird

attack. This shows how the tails can lengthen the butterfly's

life by tricking the birds into thinking the hindwing and tails

is the insect's head. After this was a lot of leaf litter, and yellows.

For a long time, the forest appeared completely still. There

were many common fauns along the way. Then, came sunlight.

The track had small rocks and had foliage surrounding.

That meant blues. First a common hedge blue puddling.

Then a pointed line blue. I snapped a shot while it was resting.

It too came down to puddle.

Now it is coming to the end, so there wasn't much. Not even

a chocolate grass yellow. We walked to right where we started,

and instead o the yellows, there was two male branded imperials

sharing some plant sap......

Well, That is the end of this post, so I hope you enjoyed

reading it!