Inspired by the Tokyo Olympics , our wandering wildlife photographer Vallis has been sprinting about early in the morning , in his night attire , chasing butterflies with a camera ,frightening horses in the process . Like Olympic diving , there are degrees of difficulty involved in the gruelling butterfly steeplechase.
These include running into numerous, large spiderwebs woven during the night between trees to catch tasty moths , kicking a rock with a gouty big toe ! , causing a painful exclamation which sounds like the war cry of a Samurai warrior , treading in something smelly that is annoyingly carried inside . All this running about like a rabbit also upsets nesting Curlews , who hiss and screech.
It must be admitted that he does get some arty snaps which would inspire Picasso when the taunting , fluttering butterflies finally settle for a short time.
