Female Orange Tip

[Chocky]

This little beaty sipped the Bluebell long enough for me to rattle off 5 shots.
This was the best.

[rolf]

Excellent Chocky. They are very pretty but very small and hard to catch in the lens, was chasing several around last week when out shooting birds, but I only had the big lens with me and by the time I got it focussed, the little devils had always moved on.

[Chocky]

Thankyou. I really was hanging about for ages . I watch the buterflies on the estuary and they seam to just kepp flying fom one end to the other and back again all the time, so I stayed in one place where I had seen it land a couple of times and finally captured it. I'm really pleased with it.
The Orange Tips only fly in April and May .They Hybernate as a pupa.The pupa stage some times lasts almost a year.

[Babs]

What a beautiful butterfly, can't say I've ever seen one myself. excellent capture Chocky I'm well impressed

[Chocky]

Thank yu.o They only fly in April and may. so you need to be quick, it's a fast flye and small.