Had a beautiful ride today on my lovely new-to-me Ridgeback.
First real day of Spring - warm and sunny. About 20 miles from home, I spotted a Red Admiral on the tarmac ahead. I was going a fair clip, but avoided running over it - and it took off as I got to within a couple of feet . I thought I might have hit it, but when I looked back I couldn't see anything, so I presumed it had flown off.
No drama for the hour and a half return to my house. When I took off my jacket - which had been partially unzipped all the way back - I was surprised to find 'my' Red Admiral has hitched a lift! Must have been very still in there, I didn't feel a thing.
It set off a-fluttering at the window, so I let it out into my patch of greenery. Question is, have I accidentally dislocated a now rather confused butterfly? Or will it just carry on as if nothing odd had happened?
