Flutterby

Here I am trying to do some housework and things keep distracting me, like the sounds of helicopters, planes, birds and spotting a flutterby (or is it a moth?) in the garden. So I keep grabbing the camera and running outside.

This is quite a tatty little thing sadly, I wonder where about it is in it’s short life cycle? First close up with the new lens and having viewed the photographs I realise that I really have some work to do on getting the focus how I want it to be.

15 thoughts on “Flutterby”

Kurt on April 15, 2013 at 11:06 am said:

Excellent capture!

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- Jo on April 15, 2013 at 11:09 am said:
  
  Thank you, I lost the focus a little on the right wing and I really wanted to get it from the front but it wasn’t playing and flew away. lol
  
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wisejourney on April 15, 2013 at 11:07 am said:

saw my first spring flutterby yesterday and I was so happy !

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Jo on April 15, 2013 at 11:10 am said:

I think this is the first one I have seen so far this spring. I love them, They really do make you feel as though spring has finally arrived.

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clumsyfool on April 15, 2013 at 11:11 am said:

tatty but still beautiful! Nice picture!

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- Jo on April 15, 2013 at 11:18 am said:
  
  Thank you, they really are magical little things.
  
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beeseeker on April 15, 2013 at 7:12 pm said:

Beautiful picture of a peacock butterfly. One of our hibernating butterflies – probably responding to sunlight and – at last warmth and looking for a pit stop to fill up after a long sleep. the eyes on the wings are meant to confuse predators which would attack (it is believed) the eyes of prey – so drawing attention away from the butterfly’s head.
Survival of the luckiest – or something like that.

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- Jo on April 15, 2013 at 7:20 pm said:
  
  Wow thank you for that information. Poor thing will not have much of chance to get out up to now, today was really the very first day there has been any warmth what so ever. Makes me very excited to see more of these over the warmer weather.
  
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Brian Hughes on April 16, 2013 at 5:01 pm said:

“I wonder where about it is in it’s short life cycle?”

Somewhere between the chrysalis stage and the being eaten by your cat stage.

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- Jo on April 16, 2013 at 5:03 pm said:
  
  haha, luckily she didn’t spot it or I fear you would be correct Brian.
  
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1annecasey on April 17, 2013 at 6:37 pm said:

Wow -stunning photo!

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- Jo on April 17, 2013 at 6:44 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much, the butterfly did make it easy by staying very still for quite some time. 🙂
  
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basiga on April 18, 2013 at 5:34 pm said:

This is a WOW!

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- Jo on April 18, 2013 at 7:12 pm said:
  
  Aw thank you, you’re too kind x
  
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burnettfreelanceimagery on April 18, 2013 at 10:43 pm said:

Beautiful!

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