Friday 24 May 2013

Orange-Tip Butterfly

Orange-Tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines)

I have often tried to photograph the male orange-tip butterfly but they are usually so active that I have never managed it before. Today, however, in the Serpentine Walk one, obligingly, was still just long enough to let me catch an image, even though it's not quite as sharp as I would have liked.

Earlier this week we were staying in Ravenglass in the Lake District and took the little steam railway into Eskdale; orange-tip butterflies were flitting beside the train all the way, so hopefully this is one species that is doing quite well.

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