WillFolsom
10-Aug-2010, 08:11 AM
I had some good luck this morning. Spotted and photographed my first Red-banded hairstreak of the year... then photographed some skippers. I'll post images of these butterflies in a later session.
As I was leaving I spotted a common buckeye in the front walkway to Meadowlark Botanical Gardens where I do much of my photography. After an initial back and forth it seemed to accept me and settled down for some nectaring. Pretty common throughout the southern part of the United States. It likes open fields and gardens. It's large eyespots makes it easy to see and to identify. It also has orange bars across it's forewing and near the wing margins.
As I was leaving I spotted a common buckeye in the front walkway to Meadowlark Botanical Gardens where I do much of my photography. After an initial back and forth it seemed to accept me and settled down for some nectaring. Pretty common throughout the southern part of the United States. It likes open fields and gardens. It's large eyespots makes it easy to see and to identify. It also has orange bars across it's forewing and near the wing margins.