It's been ten years since I put in an appearance at Prees Heath for the Silver-studded Blue Butterflies! Too long as they made a perfect morning weather-wise even more special!
I'd missed the main emergence but there was one male sat on a bramble, letting the final fold in the wing unwrap!
Ladies first for the blog but in reality this was one of the last ones to be found!
Feeding almost exclusively on Birds-foot Trefoil
Then sat on a leaf whilst the heat was building up around midday! Despite the presence of nearby males, not a single one tried his luck!
A few more pics of some males, I took loads and couldn't bear to delete many of them :-)
The mandatory closed wing shot so the granular studs can be enjoyed!
Then wings open for sheer delight!
Arty views whilst perched on a stick!
Then back to the first shots of the day, a supremely fresh male!
Maybe I should make an annual event of this rather than celebrating decades?
