Later, along our hedges and amongst trees hedge browns, speckled woods and ringlets seek out sunshine and dappled shade.
A butterfly of open woodlands, hedgerows and lanes, the gatekeeper or hedge brown has a brownish-orange upperside with dark brown margins and a twin pupilled eye-spot.
This widespread butterfly is the male of the hedge brown, or gatekeeper, with its brown brand marks in the middle of the forewings.
Butterflies on the wing included a pair of marbled whites, several hedge browns, a comma and a ringlet.
The larvae of butterflies have characteristic food plants: the orange-tip feeds on lady's smock, the speckled wood and hedge brown on various grasses and the tortoiseshell on nettles.