Hi Guy,
Yes it wasn't much fun having to have sunglasses on at night with all the lights out and unable to open her eyes outside in the sunshine.
You are right I did also see some kind of dappled whites which I have yet to check out. I had forgotten those
The trip wasn't great for photos. I have plenty of the festoons but not many of the other species. Most were just single sightings, and mostly in the heat of the day when they were very active. I had plenty of time to look for and photograph butterflies properly near to where we stayed, but apart from Festoons there wasn't a lot else.
For propper photography I need to have time with just me and my camera. My g/f's patience isn't too good, and she's also not so keen on getting up at 5am to go drive to a butterfly site before they get too active for good photography.
I found 3 or 4 places where there were good numbers of butterfliees of 2-3 species say, but lots of places were there was just about nothing. I guess I'm used to Provence and Switzerland where you can go to practically any patch of flowers in any weather conditions and find plenty of buterflies. Last year I had several very successful days in provence where it was barely 7-8c (in May!) and torrential rain! Even in those conditions the Fritillaries, Blues and Moroccan Orange Tips (Even a few Festoons) were quite easily found in most places. I could snap away quite happily until the buttons stopped working on the camera and I had to go and dry it off
Oh, I just remembered I also had several very tatty Painted Ladies
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