2019 BUTTERFLY and MOTH IMAGES..

Small Heath

 

Silver Studded Blue.

 

Painted Lady

 

Me too!! I have never had a Painted Lady in the garden before and today there were two.

 

Never seen them where I was before, and there were 2, unfortunately it was the one with tatty wings that stayed to be photographed.

 

Went to my local bird hides that are 10 mins drive from home and there was literally nothing about, but the sunshine has brought out hundreds of butterflies - 2 Painted Ladies, 1 Red Admiral, 3 Small Heath, 15 Marbled Whites and hundreds of Meadow Browns.

Too hot to chase butterflies around in the wind, so ended up resting my telephoto lens on a field gate and taking pics of whatever was on the flowers in the meadow 1.15m from the end of my lens.



And even Hoverflies

 

Meadow Brown



LargeTortoiseshell

 

I'm now taking virtually all of my butterfly images this way Tele Macro

 

At the back of a bramble and with it's wings flat it was hard to see this Ringlet's rings!

 

Ringlet

 

A few seen out dog walking this morning:

Small Skipper



Meadow Browns





Small Heath



Gatekeeper



Marbled White

 

Red Admiral