More butterflies, fewer salmon

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Toward the end of last month I saw a couple of unexpected butterflies around our house; I helped at least one to get back outside. Now I learn that there are presently unusually many painted lady butterflies and that this is a known, interesting thing for which people want sightings reported. Maybe the moment has already passed, they might now have moved on from this area, but perhaps I will yet get chance to make a report or even take a photograph. Apparently the weather has suited them well.

We live close to the Firth of Tay. In other news I heard a suggestion that the river's salmon numbers may be declining because climate change is pushing their prey further north past Iceland. (It is the International Year of the Salmon and the Scottish Government have cunning means to track them by means of electronic tagging, otolith analysis, etc.) Perhaps the salmon would now be better off going up some other country's river to breed. Butterflies are pretty and inoffensive but salmon are tasty.