Recently we had a (graduated) university friend visit us and needed somewhere to go out for the day. Being located around Coventry, there’s absolutely bugger all to do here, so we decided to visit Stratford instead as it’s a half-hour drive and there are vaguely interesting things to do. Since the RSC is being bulldozed refurbished, we went a little in the opposite direction and visited the Butterfly Farm.

It’s a relatively small place; however, there are a whole heap of different butterflies there. As a testament to this, I have precisely no idea what on earth the species in the above photo is (although if you do, please comment!) One note is that since most of these guys are tropical, it’s damned humid even in winter. Large jackets are not advisable, that’s for sure.

Taken with my brand new 200mm f/2.8L, which was had for quite a bargain off of POTN. We went back to possibly my favourite place of campus — the Tocil lakes.

Coming back after the Christmas holidays, it was pretty obvious that nobody had fed the ducks in a while. They were everywhere, and when someone came along with bread, there was massive amounts of attackage which made for a good photo op.