Female Cruiser

[Peacock Royal]

Woke up quite early and it was raining this morning so I updated my blog (http://www.peacockroyal.blogspot.com) and lamented that I have not seen a female Cruiser in the field as well as photo for a very long time. After the rain had stopped, I decided to go to one of my favourite hunting grounds in CCA in the late morning. I saw two male feeding on the Mikania micrantha (mile-a-minute) flowers and one female Cruiser high up on the tree top. So decided to wait there, hoping she would come down. My patience paid off but it was quite a challenge to shoot as she kept flapping her wings while feeding.
Decided to post these two shots as female Cruiser was rarely seen and shot in the field.

[Sky Blue]

Very nice shots there Fed, agree female Cruiser is rarely seen in the field.

[horace2264]

Excellent shots of the rare female Cruiser. :thumbsup:

[Cruiser]

Concur with all above and nice open wing shot :cheers:

[Great Mormon]

nice find :thumbsup:
I have yet to see this in the field myself.

[jamesf]

Like them! :thumbsup:

I have yet to see a female Cruiser.