Both Admirals
One can never generalise about anything in this varied isle of ours. Neighbouring parishes may differ in their livestock as in their weather. While it has been my experience and that of many correspondents that while Tortoiseshells have been innumerable, Admirals have been conspicuously absent, I hear that on the Cornish coast near Newquay, Red Admirals have been numerous and a fair number of White Admirals (which are habitually very rare in most districts) have been seen in their company. My correspondent laments the entire absence
of the small Clouded Yellow, once extremely abundant in the neighbourhood. The succession of a warm zephyr from south and west to three weeks of north-east weather has brought a certain number of insects out of hibernation and marvellously renewed the song of our braver birds.
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