Brimstone & White

[it344x]

Hello everybody,

The last day of the break we took the boys out for a walk around Monkwood . Not the best way to photograph butterflies when you have your own young inadvertant beaters with you ( ) but we saw many shrews, mice, & butterflies including admirals, peacocks, extremely yellow brimstones, common & wood whites and fritillaries of some type who just wouldn't sit still long enough to be identified .

Here is an image of a brimstone and wood white who spent ages whirling around each other.

http://www.mgnastro.org/gifs/bugs/brimwhite.jpg

( canon 30d with 17-85mm )
regards
Martin

( http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )

ps. sigma 150mm is 2 months away , so nothing too close yet !

pps. how do you insert images ? I am using this code ( but with square brackets ) and it doesn't seem to work

{img}http://www.mgnastro.org/gifs/bugs/brimwhite.jpg{/img}

[Pete Eeles]

Hmmm. Not sure what the problem is there Martin. I've tested at:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... =3504#3504

but still don't understand why it doesn't work, and I've searched the web. Anyone out there able to help? Thx.

Cheers,

- Pete

[Dave McCormick]

Like that brimstone pic. How do you get shots of them flying? I only have a compact camera with an x8 zoom and a x8 digital zoom.

[it344x]

Thanks Dave.
One of the advantages of my canon 30d DSLR over my compact olympus C-500 is that when you press the button it takes a picture almost instantaneously, and in high speed mode ( non RAW mode ) I can take up to about 30 shots at 5 fps as it has a decent internal buffer.

What you don't see is the 15 other out of focus shots

I'm not sure if it was the time of day ( 12:30-2:00 on a hot sunny day ) , my amateurish fieldcraft or just my kids charging about but nothing wanted to alight and be photographed really

regards
Martin
( http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )

[it344x]

On further investigation I believe it is a male brimstone and a lady brimstone .

[eccles]

Yes, the white butterfly in your picture is a female brimstone. I would guess the 'fritillary' that you saw may have been a comma. They look a little like a small fritillary but have very marked sculpted edges to the wings. Monkwood is known for silver washed fritillary but there's no way these would be about yet.

[Cotswold Cockney]

Thanks Dave.
One of the advantages of my canon 30d DSLR over my compact olympus C-500 is that when you press the button it takes a picture almost instantaneously, and in high speed mode ( non RAW mode ) I can take up to about 30 shots at 5 fps as it has a decent internal buffer.

What you don't see is the 15 other out of focus shots

I'm not sure if it was the time of day ( 12:30-2:00 on a hot sunny day ) , my amateurish fieldcraft or just my kids charging about but nothing wanted to alight and be photographed really

regards
Martin
( http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )

Ahah ~ you're giving away 'professional' photographer's secrets there ....

Even so an exceptionally nice action shot of a couple of Brimstones in sexual pursuit.
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