a tortoise shell butterfly on some buddleia
Here's a shot of a tortoise shell butterfly which I originally mis identified (quite how I don't know!) as a red admiral.!
Anyway, it's in my garden on a buddleia bush I planted last year. It didn't flower until this summer and now it's doing its job in attracting butterflies(usually red admirals in my defence!) into my garden. Lovely!
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| Fujifilm X-H2, Fujinon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 1/250th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125 handheld |
Cracking photo, think that one's a small tortoiseshell?
ReplyDeleteBuddleia are great for butterflies, a neighbour of mine has one hanging over a fence so I sometimes go there for a butterfly fotofix.
An exciting moment recently was a hummingbird hawk moth, I'd never seen one before.
I'm posting this with zero expectation it'll actually appear! I'm also posting as "anonymous" as when I try to post under my blogger account I get asked to log in (even though I already am!!). Anyway, here goes:
ReplyDeletethanks Graham. I of course mis ID's the species as a RA when you are correct, it is a tortoise shell. I am just so used to seeing RA's on the buddleia in my garden!
We get the very odd hummingbird hawk moth here. I've only ever seen two - both in the last few weeks in my garden! Impossible to photograph the buggers!!