Sunday, 7 August 2016

Red Admiral

The birds have gone quiet for the time being, while they moult and re cooperate from the breeding season. It gives me the opportunity to look at other things, like bats (in the evening) and butterflies during the day.

It's a great time for butterflies at the moment. Lots are on the wing, and it's the time of year for the The Big Butterfly Count 2016 The idea is that you spend 15 minutes counting and identifying as many butterflies as you can. Near me, the most common this year seems to be Small White, but one of my favourites is the Red Admiral. Quite often seen on Buddleia, they contrast very well against these light colours.





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16 comments:

  1. Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti8 August 2016 at 16:02

    Beautiful butterfly! I've never seen and orange and black one.

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  2. NCSue8 August 2016 at 20:02

    Such a pretty butterfly!
    Thank you for sharing your pix at this week's photo linky party at image-in-ing:
    http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-little-dab-of-color.html

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  3. eileeninmd8 August 2016 at 21:10

    Hello, beautiful captures of the Red Admiral.
    Happy Monday, enjoy your new week!

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  4. Kenneth Cole Schneider9 August 2016 at 00:28

    It has been very quiet on our birding patch as well. We often do not hear any singing before sunrise, even from the mockingbirds which can sing all night in the spring. My attention also turns to butterflies but they are very scarce at present, possibly because of all the mosquito spraying in response to the local occurrence of "non-travel-related" Zika. We have encountered no mosquitoes at all, which is also very unusual. Of course we slather on the DEET.

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  5. Rambling Woods9 August 2016 at 02:25

    You are lucky to find so many Andrew... Very few here I am sad to say... Lovely photos... Michelle

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  6. Karen9 August 2016 at 05:11

    Fantastic captures of this beautiful butterfly!

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  7. Fun609 August 2016 at 08:00

    Those are fabulous photos.

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  8. Maria's Space9 August 2016 at 13:19

    Such beautiful captures. What a lovely butterfly

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  9. fredamans9 August 2016 at 19:44

    Gorgeous shots of a gorgeous butterfly!

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  10. likeschocolate11 August 2016 at 02:52

    So so pretty!
    Have a great week!

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  11. EricaSta11 August 2016 at 16:57

    Wonderful captures! I love the butterflies. 🤗

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  12. betty-NZ12 August 2016 at 08:56

    Wonderful captures!

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  13. Adela12 August 2016 at 14:01

    Such crisp colors. Wow!

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  14. Sharon Wagner12 August 2016 at 14:34

    I don't have any birds this week either. Other things like bats are hard to capture. Good luck!

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  15. Anonymous12 August 2016 at 19:25

    An elusive subject! Beautiful creature and you have captured it well =) #photofriday

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  16. Jeanna12 August 2016 at 20:07

    Your knowledge and photos always astound me, Adam. I was trying to get a dog and butterfly shot at our walking park last week to no avail. Thanks for the inspiration.

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