Brimstone

I regard the first Brimstone as the opening of the butterfly season and so the season opened today. As usual I did not get a picture of this fast flying butterfly that never seems to hang around long enough for me to snap it. I see that it has arrived 12 days ahead of the first Brimstone of last year. Normally by now there should also be spawning frogs but with water levels so very low I am not quite sure where they are going to spawn this year as the normal places in the reeds are dry.