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Small Tortoiseshell On Thistle

The breeze was wafting the thistle heads on a bright and sunny day at Carr Mill Dam when this Small Tortoiseshell butterfly – Aglais urticae - came fluttering along and settled, with the sun warming its back, on one of the tallest of the thistles and stayed just long enough for me to get a quick shot.

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Uploaded on August 7, 2014
Taken on July 22, 2014