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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.
Peacock Butterfly bnm9084jhp 
 Butterfly peacock aristocrat mauve buddleia open wings defences feeding Aberdeenshire Scotland summer eyes photograph as they feed and fly between different buddleia bushes. 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, Inachis io, defence, pattern, wings, red, black, white, patches, peacock, eyes, spectacles, scary, caterpillars, nettles, buddleia, bright, colours, colourful, purple, mauve, orange, August, 2017, Nikon, DSLR, D700, camera, 28-105mm macro lens, AF Nikkor
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
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Peacock Butterfly bnm9084jhp
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Butterfly peacock aristocrat mauve buddleia open wings defences feeding Aberdeenshire

Scotland summer eyes photograph as they feed and fly between different buddleia bushes. 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, Inachis io, defence, pattern, wings, red, black, white, patches, peacock, eyes, spectacles, scary, caterpillars, nettles, buddleia, bright, colours, colourful, purple, mauve, orange, August, 2017, Nikon, DSLR, D700, camera, 28-105mm macro lens, AF Nikkor