Welcome to the last post about our holiday in Cornwall. During the week I noted many different types of animal. The week was packed with walks and cycle rides, which gave me the opportunity to take pictures of things which I haven't seen at home. While our garden provides great undergrowth and wilderness, it doesn't have many flowers which attract bees and butterflies. Cornwall did have this, and I took some pictures of several types of Butterfly.Top left: Speckled Wood,
Top Right: Red Admiral,
Bottom Left: Meadow Brown,
Bottom Right: Gatekeeper
Some other interesting creatures were also seen in Cornwall that week. See below. The Dragonfly must have been injured by a swallow or something because it landed on the drive and stayed there for a bit. My uncle picked it up carefully and it sat on his finger. Eventually, after I got some pictures of it, we put it on some grass in a field. The beetle in the picture was just in the road when we saw it. The fungus was seen on an uprooted tree which I walked past. Finally, the dog belongs to the farmer who owns the cottage. They aren't very wild but they were lovely dogs. There was another one too, and they were very friendly.
Top left: Bloody Nosed Beetle, Top Right: Common Hawker Dragonfly, Bottom left: Hairy Stereum Fungus, Bottom Right: Kimmy the dog
Overall, I had a great time in Cornwall, and the wildlife made it that much better.
Also seen around was the Gatekeeper butterfly, which we see most years (pictured below). Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo of it with its wings open.
Also seen were Large White and Red Admiral. Large White butterflies appear to be everywhere at the moment. Both butterflies pictured above particularly liked the Marjoram flowers. However, other flowers seem to be appearing everywhere (most of which were not planted by us). I took photos of some of them and they are below. The first photo shows a thistle flower which seems to be particularly popular with the bees.
I'm not sure what the flower in the photo below is but it really looked brilliant in the afternoon sun. In the background, you can see the red-orange flowers of the bean plants. 
The Veronica plant seems to be very healthy at the moment.
And finally, a quick note on the birds. The feeders have been very busy recently, especially with the tits and sparrows. Today, I saw 10 sparrows feeding on the lawn, which is the most we have ever seen in our garden. Also, Blue, Great, Long-tailed and Coal Tits have been seen frantically feeding. Maybe they are stocking up ready for when they moult? I will leave you with a photo of a pair of Blue Tits which were acrobatically feeding at the end of the garden.
Sunny or not, have a great week :)
Peacock Butterfly (It flew into our garden shed and landed on a paint pot 
