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A male marbled white butterfly basking in some rare July sunshine at Prestbury Hill nature reserve near Cheltenham, taken this lunchtime when I managed to get out with the camera for a couple of hours in between the showers. The sun was very hot for about an hour and the limestone grassland suddenly came to life with a large number of butterflies, moths and bumblebees suddenly appearing to collect nectar and pollen. I saw a good number of marbled whites, dark green fritillaries, ringlets, meadow browns, small heaths and large skippers, as well as one red admiral, a few common blues and numerous chimney sweep moths, burnet moths and various grass moths. This was the first marbled white I'd seen this year and had obviously only recently emerged as it looked very fresh.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 600D |
| Lens: | 70.0 - 300.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 626.8 - 2686.2 mm) |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 10 Jul 2012 - 12:38 PM |
| Focal Length: | 300mm |
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/500sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 320 |
| Exposure Mode: | Not Defined |
| Metering Mode: | Evaluative |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| Title: | Marbled White |
| Username: | 
Glostopcat |
| Uploaded: | 10 Jul 2012 - 5:20 PM |
| Tags: | Butterfly conservation, Close-up / macro, Glos, Marbled white butterfly, Prestbury hill nature reserve, Wildlife / nature |
| Votes: | 57 |
| Modifications Welcome (Upload a Modification) |
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Wonderful detail and BG Ed, excellent capture mate.
Only a brief bit Carol, it's back to more rain later in the week I'm afraid, I just struck lucky today
Well you saw a lot today 
Well done with this capture
Helen
A beautiful specimen, excellently captured, Ed.
Dave
Yes there will be a few more to come, I even found some rust on my travels too!
Many thanks for all your comments and clicks, they are much appreciated, Ed
not only a good capture, the soft green b/g makes it 3d and it jumps out at you.
Always interesting to see your Butterfly uploads Ed', as most of them I've never seen before, and this being one of them. Nice shot mate.
John
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