Thanks for the replies.
Cheers,

Kieran

I would be grateful if anyone could ID the two butterflies I photgraphed in cornwall last week.
unknown 2 is not a great photo but perhaps its good enough for an ID.
Cheers,

Kieran.

The pic is from the UK, Maidenhead. :oops: I had been on hols in Ireland just prior to taking that picture and when I uploaded the pics (lots of them) to my PC I thought that was one of the ones I had taken over there. I was out and about just after I got back home and when I was processing them I f...

Its easy to see what it is when you know what you are looking for.
Its a better match to the other comma pics on this site than than my field guide.

Thanks again for the help....I expect I will be a regular poster in this forum over the coming years.

Took this pic in connemara west of Ireland in July. The only thing it looks like to me, with the help of my collins field guide is a tortoiseshell but that says they are extinct in the UK and this very site says not found in the British isles. Am I mistaken? If so then what is it please. Thanks. htt...