Large Tortoiseshell - April 2007

[Mervyn Crawford]

One of your members, Guy Padfield thought these two pictures might be of interest. They were taken in my garden in Mildenhall in Suffolk on 4th.April 2007

[Pete Eeles]

Thanks Mervyn - they definitely are!

Quite a few members of UK Butterflies are interesting in plotting Large Tort sightings to see if they're on their way back!

Cheers,

- Pete

[Neil Hulme]

Hi Mervyn,
Very nice. UK Butterflying doesn't get much better than that. I've only ever managed to photograph them sitting on builders rubble, but your second shot makes a very pretty picture. Congratulations!

[Padfield]

Thanks for posting, Mervyn! They are tremendous pictures.

I'm sure you've noticed the posting on this year's large tortoiseshells, here:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... f=8&t=3027

I was referring to your sighting in my first comment on that post.

I really hope all these sightings are the beginning of something big...

Guy