Scotland > Flora and Fauna > Small Tortoiseshell bnm9040jhp
Gallery of Scottish photographs of plants, flowers, such as bluebells, harebells, Dames Rocket, broom, gorse, fox gloves, poppies; trees such as gean, silver birch, pines, Scots Pines, larch, and a few wild animals such as birds, hare, pheasants, roe deer, red squirrels, insects, butterflies such as peacocls, red admirals, tortoiseshell, although I am not a wildlife photographer as such.
© Jim Henderson
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Flora and Fauna | |||
| Filename: | Small Tortoiseshell bnm9040jhp |
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| Upload Date: | 2017-08-20 13:30:11 | |||
| Photo Size: | 7.6mb 5321x3567 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Butterfly small tortoiseshell aristocrat buddleia feeding Deeside Scottish summer photographas they feed and fly between different buddleia bushes and up tp the left top is a peacock. Numbers are better this year, 2017, although still down on 20 years ago when 100plus was not unusual. So far this year I have counted over 50 at one time, mainly Peacocks and Red Admirals with a couple of Small Tortoiseshells and one Dark Green Fritillary but some good sunny spells seems to have got them active. One surprise was to find a Golden Ringed Dragonfly hanging from a buddleia early in the morning, no movement of any kind while I photographed it but it had gone 10 mins later when I came out again. |
| Keywords: | Scotland, Scottish, Britain, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Deeside, countryside, rural, wildlife, landscape, summer, sunny, butterfly, butterflies, aristocrats, Aglais urticae, defence, pattern, wings, red, black, white, patches, bars, small, tortoiseshell, blue, half-moons, wings, caterpillars, nettles, web, buddleia, bright, colours, colourful, purple, mauve, orange, August, 2017, Nikon, DSLR, D700, camera, 28-105mm macro lens, AF Nikkor |