Brimstone

[Denise]

It's a lovely day here in Bristol today, and I have to do chores, dagnabit!
Walking, on my way to do the weekly shop, I found a stunningly beautiful Brimstone. My first for the year (although I have seen Red Admiral's) and I didn't have my camera, cus cus.
When I got home I found a Comma in the garden, which annoyingly flew off.
Spring has sprung for me.

Denise

[Gruditch]

Yep its here, I saw a Small Tortoiseshell last week, and one Brimstone and one Small white today.

Gruditch

[Chris]

jealous still nothing!

[Martin]

A Comma for me today...flying 20 feet up and doing about 28,000 mph!

Martin.

[eccles]

A super day out for me. At the local reserve I saw 8 commas, 3 peacocks and a single brimstone. There were reports of more brimstones earlier that day. To cap it all there was a pair of dippers in the stream.
One of the commas. Very aggressive and has the scars to prove it:

(Sony A100, Sigma 400mm Telemacro, iso200, 1/100 f11

And one of the peacocks which had a few minor skirmishes with the above comma but stayed mainly out of trouble and was relatively intact:

(Sony A100, Sigma 400mm Telemacro, iso200 1/640 f6.3) I could have increased the f-stop a bit more here to increase DOF

[Denise]

Nice one eccles.
Was that at Golden Valley or Willsbridge?
Denise

[eccles]

Thanks Denise. These were at Willsbridge.