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Butterflies from 2015 season

Painted Lady
From my garden last week

Small White
From my garden this week

Purple Hairstreak
A first sighting and capture of a Purple Hairstreak in the Dewerstone Woods, Shaugh Prior. A path leads up through the tre canopy so quite easy to find them sitting in the top of the Oaks. Not the best image as I couldn’t get close enough before it flew off but happy to get my first shots

Small Tortoiseshell
Another visitor to my Buddleia this week when it was a little warmer and drier!!

Small Copper
My last image for this year’s Big Butterfly Count, one of my favourites spotted briefly in my Devon garden this week,

Peacock
BUK0837

Common Blue (male)
ABUK4526

Common Blue (male)
From my local patch near the River Tavy

Silver-washed Fritillary
Another from my local patch on the River Tavy, West Devon

Red Admiral on Buddleia
Another visitor to my Buddleia

Comma on Buddleja
A very obliging Comma nectaring on my Buddleja

Comma
A fresh looking specimen from my garden

Marbled White (Melanargia Galathea)
A first sighting for me on my local patch. Overjoyed to find them and even more so that they were very obliging sitting nicely to allow me to take lots of shots.

Marbled White (Melanargia Galathea)
An upperwing shot of the same Marbled White as yesterday’s upload.

Marbled White (Melanargia Galathea)
Another shot from my local patch, this Marbled White sat nice and still for me to get really close with my macro lens,

Marbled White
Back to the Marbled Whites from a couple of weekends ago, they are fast becoming my favourite Butterflies.

Silver-washed Fritillary
My first ever shot of Silver-washed Fritillary spotted near the River Tavy and luckily it settled long enough to fire off a few quick shots. Magnificent Butterflies to watch in-flight!

Large Skipper
From the same Meadow as the Common Blue I posted recently, this Large Skipper sat nectaring with nice backlight highlighting his wings

Meadow Brown
Lots of these around this year, nice to get a shot with a clean background!!

Small Skipper
Another outing to my local patch in search of Marbled Whites revealed my first Small Skipper of 2015

Ringlet
From the same Meadow as the Common Blue, still looking for Marbled Whites!

Male Common Blue
Taken in fading light near the River Tavy this week

Green Hairstreak
Taken on the Moors on High Down, Lydford

Green Hairstreak
K5AB4225

High Brown Fritillary
ABUK8970

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
ABUK8964

Meadow Brown
ABUK8950

Brimstone
ABUK8909

Painted Lady
K5AB4198

Dingy Skipper
ABUK8611

Wood White
From my first visit to the Devon Wildlife Trust reserve at Meeth Quarry, this is a stronghold for the rare Wood White Butterfly

Pearl-bordered Fritillary
ABUK8133

Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Taken at Lydford Old Railway reserve on the same day as the Heath Fritillary posted previously. This was the only Pearl Bordered Fritillary we saw on the day, luckily it was sitting up nicely on a Bramble bush.

Heath Fritillary
ABUK8076

Heath Fritillary
I spent a wonderful afternoon at the BC Devon reserve near Lydford in search of the very rare Heath Fritillary. Thankfully we found at least 30 specimens and as the sun was behind the clouds they were static and showing beautifully. Thanks to the BC Devon branch for organising the event and for keepiing this extremely rare Butterfly from extinction in the UK.