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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.
© Jim Henderson
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| Photographer: | Jim Henderson | |||
| Collection: | Flora and Fauna | |||
| Filename: | Peacock Butterfly bnm9087jhp |
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| Upload Date: | 2017-08-21 13:23:01 | |||
| Photo Size: | 7.4mb 4995x3780 pixels | |||
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| Caption: | Butterfly peacock strong colours mauve buddleia open wings striking defenceScottish Aberdeenshire dull light summer eyes photographed as it feeds and fly on this buddleia bush. 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, defence, pattern, wings, red, black, white, patches, admiral, admirable, vanessa, atalanta, caterpillars, nettles, buddleia, bright, colours, colourful, purple, mauve, orange, August, 2017, Nikon, DSLR, D700, camera, 28-105mm macro lens, AF Nikkor |