For four years I have tried to take a photo of an Orange Tip butterfly but they flit about so quickly and seldom seem to settle for long.  Near the house I noticed several down the lane and just managed three photos before my memory card was full, so this is not very clear.
The butterfly is one of the first which has not overwintered as an adult to emerge in spring and is most often seen between April and June. The male has an orange tip on its wings whereas the female is sometimes mistaken for a Small White butterfly. I saw at least 10 males and a few females so I expect soon the eggs and caterpillars will appear particularly on the garlic mustard plants which are growing profusely here.
Although the Orange Tip is fairly common in England and Wales up until the early 1980s, the Orange Tip had a restricted distribution in SW Scotland being confined to parts of Dumfries & Galloway with a few colonies in South Ayrshire and Lanarkshire .In the mid 1980s it began to spread throughout southern Scotland and north up into Argyll.