More pics from yesterday's expedition, these taken by my very talented wife, Mrs Zoom, with her fancy big camera with it's telephoto lens. The two below are of a skylark, hovering on the wing in full song above us while we were photographing the cows that I posted yesterday.
The bottom pic is two Peacock butterflies, which were either two males fighting over territory or a male pursuing a female in a courtship dance. I'm not enough of a lepidoptera expert to be able to tell but it's one of those, definitely!
The great one-that-got-away was an adder sunning itself on a path that we were walking down that we came very close to actually treading on, but had flounced (and I do mean flounced) into the undergrowth before we'd got our various cameras into focus.
This was all at (or very close to) Powerstock Common, which is a Dorset Wildlife Trust nature reserve in West Dorset. A bit of a hidden gem by all accounts - impossible to find but well worth the visit.
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