Grizzled/Dingy Skippers, and a Green Hairstreak. Extra images added.

Testudo Man · 9 May 2020

These 3 species of small sized Butterflies, have been on the wing for well over a week now.
When i say small, the Skippers are the size of your thumb nail, an the Hairstreak is slightly larger.
All 3 species are known to fly low an rapid, whilst the Skippers bask with wings open, the Hairstreak basks with its wings closed.
None of these images have been cropped. Cheers Paul.
Any questions encouraged.

Green Hairstreak Butterfly.

Green Hairstreak Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Dingy Skipper Butterfly.

Dingy Skipper Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Dingy Skipper Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Grizzled Skipper Butterfly.

Grizzled Skipper Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Wandering star · 9 May 2020

Smashing set with the Hairstreak being my pick of the bunch

Testudo Man · 9 May 2020

Wandering star said:
Smashing set with the Hairstreak being my pick of the bunch

Thanks for the comment Gary, its always appreciated.
The Hairstreak image has the "cleanest" background for sure, but my fav is the closed wing shot of the Dingy Skipper.

Im off out to see if i can find some Brown Argus/Small Copper soon, its a bit too hot right now though, but im hoping to get some useable images later in the day/early evening.

Cheers Paul.

Graham · 9 May 2020

Hi Paul,
Never an easy job getting the Green Hairstreak without a messy BG but I know it`s possible.
With the Skippers it`s a different ballgame, Lovely little things with some nice colours and patterns.
I`ve just had one printed and it look`s sublime, I hope you don`t mind me posting it here, I`ll remove if you don`t want it on your thread.

Mallow Skipper

Testudo Man · 9 May 2020

Graham said:
Hi Paul,
Never an easy job getting the Green Hairstreak without a messy BG but I know it`s possible.
With the Skippers it`s a different ballgame, Lovely little things with some nice colours and patterns.
I`ve just had one printed and it look`s sublime, I hope you don`t mind me posting it here, I`ll remove if you don

Cheers for that Graham.
That's no problems mate, I look forward to seeing your image.
Ive never printed one of my images..............i should get around to doing a few of em one day though.

Graham · 9 May 2020

Testudo Man said:
Cheers for that Graham.
That's no problems mate, I look forward to seeing your image.
Ive never printed one of my images..............i should get around to doing a few of em one day though.

It`s definitely worth it.
I got prints of different shots, My only problem is now the frame, I decided to by a table saw and buy the frame I want and I should save some euros by doing that.

Testudo Man · 9 May 2020

Graham said:
It`s definitely worth it.
I got prints of different shots, My only problem is now the frame, I decided to by a table saw and buy the frame I want and I should save some euros by doing that.

Just checked, an i can now see your image...nice one mate, your Mallow Skipper is a bit like our Grizzled Skipper.
Making/constructing your own frames must be good to do too...………..right, im out the door, i'll check in later...it could be a late evening, by the time I finish chasing these Brown Argus, an whatever else I see along the way. Cheers Paul.

Deleted member 3428 · 9 May 2020

Wonderful shots, good to see a few different butterflies.

I hardly saw any about today on my walk..

coopers · 9 May 2020

Lovely shots

and what a good lookin specimen the Hairstreak is.

Monkeyhanger · 9 May 2020

Excellent set

alfbranch · 10 May 2020

A fine set of images Paul

Testudo Man · 10 May 2020

Ajophotog said:
Wonderful shots, good to see a few different butterflies. I hardly saw any about today on my walk..

Cheers Alby, ive been chasing Butterflies for a decade now, so I know where to look each season/year/time/place/location/habitat etc. However, this time of the year, theres plenty of species on the wing, so I guess your luck wasn't in on the day.

coopers said:
Lovely shots and what a good lookin specimen the Hairstreak is.

Thanks for that.

Monkeyhanger said:
Excellent set

Cheers.

alfbranch said:
A fine set of images Paul

Thanks Alf.

3 more images, of the same 3 species above...but these shots are more close up/macro i guess.

Green Hairstreak, image is cropped some.

Green Hairstreak Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Dingy Skipper, image is not cropped at all.

Dingy Skipper Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Grizzled Skipper, image is not cropped at all.

Grizzled Skipper Butterfly. by Tort Man, on Flickr

JohnC6 · 11 May 2020

Wonderful set. I wonder if you get more variety with the warmer climate in the SE ?

Testudo Man · 12 May 2020

JohnC6 said:
Wonderful set. I wonder if you get more variety with the warmer climate in the SE ?

Thanks for the comment John.

I live in Kent.
Over the last decade, im sure ive seen/photographed up to 39 species of Butterfly within Kent.
Despite me living in a suburban house(although my garden does back onto a small wooded area) im pretty sure ive recorded up to 26 species of Butterfly in my garden...but some of those butterflies were a fly-through) a few of em didn't land! but im still calling them a garden "tick".

So yeah, the South East is a great area for Butterflies......but if I want to increase my species list, ive now got to leave sunny Kent, an venture out more.

Grizzled/Dingy Skippers, and a Green Hairstreak. Extra images added.

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