Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, it certainly seems to be a very friendly and helpful site. Will hopefully remember to take the camera and all in future - But if you do bring your camera, remember the battery or memory card! I walked over 2 miles to get a photo of a pine forest and whatever was...

A big thank you - I didn't realise that butterflies could loose so much colour. I've looked again and can now make out the markings etc, as before I think I must have been looking for a similar colour match and couldn't see anything remotely like this one. I will try and bear this in mind in the fut...

hi - I took a couple of rather hasty shots of this poor bedraggled buttefly, and it's the first one I've not been able to identify through your site.
any help would be gratefully welcome - thanks

Thought I'd better introduce myself as I've just become a member on this great site. My name is Irene, and I've been rummaging throught your site for some 2years now, mainly trying to identify snaps I've taken. So I finally took the plunge and signed up. As with so many of your new members I've rece...