Re: William
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:25 pm
Thanks Chaps!
Guy - I was fairly hesitant with the upperside, he's an underside of the same butterfly - what do you think?
'Whites'
Since spring is getting going now in Somerset, it's time to roll out the last of the Swiss pics - some 'whites' or at least white things!
Black-Veined Whites were probably the most abundant of this group, and it was nice to get some good photo opportunities during the frequent cloudy spells as they roosted on flowerheads in damp meadows and clearings.
Mountain Green-Veined Whites were also fairly common at higher altitudes, unlike other trips (thanks to the cloudy spells once more), I managed to get a few photos of them too.
The white highlight though, could only be one - I finally managed a prolonged audience with the Apollo towards the end of the trip, after an early start, getting good views of some roosting in a small woodland clearing. Like the Black-Veined Whites, they seemed to seek out white flowers for this, and so proved quite nice and obvious. A fitting end, to a truly unforgettable experience (though Small Apollos proved to be a near miss, lots of scrambling about on scree slopes in promising habitat yielded nothing more than distant white blurs!).
Guy - I was fairly hesitant with the upperside, he's an underside of the same butterfly - what do you think?
'Whites'
Since spring is getting going now in Somerset, it's time to roll out the last of the Swiss pics - some 'whites' or at least white things!
Black-Veined Whites were probably the most abundant of this group, and it was nice to get some good photo opportunities during the frequent cloudy spells as they roosted on flowerheads in damp meadows and clearings.
Mountain Green-Veined Whites were also fairly common at higher altitudes, unlike other trips (thanks to the cloudy spells once more), I managed to get a few photos of them too.
The white highlight though, could only be one - I finally managed a prolonged audience with the Apollo towards the end of the trip, after an early start, getting good views of some roosting in a small woodland clearing. Like the Black-Veined Whites, they seemed to seek out white flowers for this, and so proved quite nice and obvious. A fitting end, to a truly unforgettable experience (though Small Apollos proved to be a near miss, lots of scrambling about on scree slopes in promising habitat yielded nothing more than distant white blurs!).