large skipper

[turlough]

Butterflies usually move around too much to get good photos of them but this male Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) was nice enough to keep sitting on this flower long enough for me to get several nice photos of him. You can even see his proboscis, both curled up and straightened out.

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Attingham

[cmcmck]

An elm skeleton in the landscape:



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