Wall Brown, female aberration. Hoe Grange Quarry Butterfly Nature Reserve, Longcliffe, Derbyshire. DSC_7483.jpg
To quote the Derbyshire Recorder, Ken Orpe: "I sent the photo off to Professor Dr Roger Dennis who has studied this species closely in the past and he suggested that it was a rare form named fascia Frohawk with an extreme variation, whilst the nearest in the Cockayne Collection at the Natural History Society shows the aberration mediolugens."
I managed a single shot of this individual nectaring, before it decided it didn't like me and took refuge 10 feet up the quarry face and stayed there, as shown here.
I spent a long day at the quarry, but unfortunately, all my shots have been to a great or lesser extent ruined by the fact that the vibration reduction (VR - image stabilisation for Canon users), had somehow been switched to the off position leading to camera shake on every shot. Some, like this one benefitted from my fatigue and consequent poor memory, in that the ISO was left at 800 after light deteriorated then improved again and a very fast shutter occurred. Most were for the bin.
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Wall Brown, female aberration. Hoe Grange Quarry Butterfly Nature Reserve, Longcliffe, Derbyshire. DSC_7483.jpg
To quote the Derbyshire Recorder, Ken Orpe: "I sent the photo off to Professor Dr Roger Dennis who has studied this species closely in the past and he suggested that it was a rare form named fascia Frohawk with an extreme variation, whilst the nearest in the Cockayne Collection at the Natural History Society shows the aberration mediolugens."
I managed a single shot of this individual nectaring, before it decided it didn't like me and took refuge 10 feet up the quarry face and stayed there, as shown here.
I spent a long day at the quarry, but unfortunately, all my shots have been to a great or lesser extent ruined by the fact that the vibration reduction (VR - image stabilisation for Canon users), had somehow been switched to the off position leading to camera shake on every shot. Some, like this one benefitted from my fatigue and consequent poor memory, in that the ISO was left at 800 after light deteriorated then improved again and a very fast shutter occurred. Most were for the bin.
Thank you for viewing and for your faves and comments