Love In The Afternoon

I shot an orange tip first thing this morning, female, no tips. This early success made me think it was going to be a butterfly day. I didn't do too badly. I captured a pair of green-veined whites mating but they were on sheep's parsley which made for a distracting background. I wasn't able to get my first speckled wood of the season at a pleasing angle. The male brimstones and male orange tips had one thing on their minds and didn't settle. My comma was snatched from directly above, I try not to shoot insects like that.

I am pleased with this pair of green nettle weevils making love in the afternoon in their grassy boudoir. The grass makes a much less 'busy' backdrop than their favourite nettle bed does. They've relegated my linnet on field maple and goose and goslings on the lake through the hedge.