Orange Tips !!
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 3:36 pm
i was very pleased with these Orange Tip pics. they were very settled on Cuckoo Flower in a meadow at Grafham Water.
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as far as i could tell it was the male above & the female dangling with her legs in the airDavid M wrote:I feel sorry for the one dangling in mid-air! Just shows how tightly butterflies are clamped together when in cop.
That doesn't surprise me, Charles, although I have seen instances where it's the other way round - e.g. Essex Skippers!Charles Nicol wrote:..as far as i could tell it was the male above & the female dangling with her legs in the air
*insert Essex joke here"*David M wrote:That doesn't surprise me, Charles, although I have seen instances where it's the other way round - e.g. Essex Skippers!Charles Nicol wrote:..as far as i could tell it was the male above & the female dangling with her legs in the air