Spring is still cool here in Ireland, and warm days and butterflies are still a while off. But inspired by this week’s Discover Challenge to look at one of our senses made me think about butterflies.
Butterflies are a real feast for our sense of sight – colourful, delicate, and just pretty amazing.
Peacock
Speckled wood
Tortoiseshell butterfly on bramble
Green veined white
Red admiral
Silver washed Fritillary
Murtagh's Meadow 
Lovely butterflies.
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Thanks Lena – they are such beautiful creatures.
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Yes, very pretty.
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Stunning captures!
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Thank you:)
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Good choice, lovely photos, especially the Green veined white. We had our first warmish day here, well 10c, but it felt wonderful. Hope you get some warm weather too.
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Thanks Julie. It’s getting more spring like here too, hoping to get some time in the garden over weekend!
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A lovely collection and great photos. I’ve only seen a couple of small whites this year so far.
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Hoping we’ll start to see some next week when temperatures are suppose to rise:)
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Gorgeous! We have gotten some summery weather but no butterflies yet–just plain flies!
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The bees in my mum’s hive were working today so we must be getting close!
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Beautiful series!
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Thank you:)
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Beautiful gallery – and butterflies are not the easiest of subjects to photograph. One minute they’re poised the next they’re off. Love the designs here, so. Different to my neck of the woods.
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Thank you – I do love to try and capture them on camera – you can really appreciate their amazing colours then!
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A beautiful feast for the eyes, to be sure! 🙂
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I can’t wait to see out first proper spring butterfly:)
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I went searching yesterday… too optimistic! 😉
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Maybe today…….
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I’m still waiting to see my first one for the season! 😉
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Me too!
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Speckled Wood and Silver Wash Fritillary – will try to add these to my little memory collection of such beautiful butterflies. Wonderfully captured.
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Thank you Jane.
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Wow, that first shot is a real stunner! Do you know what species it is?
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It is called, perhaps unsurprisingly, a Peacock Butterfly (Inachis io). It is a beauty:0
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You capture nature so well. This is one of my favourites!
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Thank you Melissa, as you know it is one of my favourite topics!
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Such beautiful butterflies. Is it true, do you know, that butterflies were originally called “flutterbys”?
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I haven’t heard that before but it would make sense:)
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