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Ragged Robin

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Puzzles
« on: March 28, 2009, 12:51:52 PM »
Gloomy day in the clouds.....

How many butterflies?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2009, 01:09:50 PM »
Two lovers enjoying the warm sunshine?
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2009, 01:24:31 PM »
Thanks for that - 10 out 10 Mark, what butterflies are they?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2009, 01:33:33 PM »
Are the British?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2009, 01:38:50 PM »
Robin lives in Switzerland, Mark, so I'm guessing not UK butterflies!
Interesting that the leading egdes of the front sets of wings are different... would this be the difference between male and female?

Robin,  may I ask you to put your location in your sginature box so it shows on all your posts?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2009, 01:42:18 PM »
No Mark...they like canoodling alpine meadows in the summer!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2009, 01:46:31 PM »
Don't we all!!!!   :-*
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2009, 01:55:17 PM »
Quote from: Ragged Robin on March 28, 2009, 01:42:18 PM
No Mark...they like canoodling alpine meadows in the summer!
Chance would be a fine thing  8)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2009, 02:01:38 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 28, 2009, 01:38:50 PM
Robin lives in Switzerland, Mark, so I'm guessing not UK butterflies!
Interesting that the leading egdes of the front sets of wings are different... would this be the difference between male and female?

Robin,  may I ask you to put your location in your sginature box so it shows on all your posts?

Which is male and which is female then? Seems the one at the front is more pushy!

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2009, 02:08:30 PM »
Quote from: Ragged Robin on March 28, 2009, 01:42:18 PM
No Mark...they like canoodling alpine meadows in the summer!

Chance would be a fine thing... still David & I are off to Austria in June  ;D :-* ;D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2009, 02:09:25 PM »
Quote from: Carol Shaw on March 28, 2009, 02:08:30 PM
Quote from: Ragged Robin on March 28, 2009, 01:42:18 PM
No Mark...they like canoodling alpine meadows in the summer!

Chance would be a fine thing... still David & I are off to Austria in June  ;D :-* ;D

Where there's life there's hope, eh, Carol??  ;D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2009, 02:11:33 PM »
Quote from: Ragged Robin on March 28, 2009, 02:01:38 PM

Which is male and which is female then? Seems the one at the front is more pushy!

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thanks, Robin!
 
I'm having bother seeing how the body in the front, complete with antennae, is connected at all to either ofthe two sets of wings behind...... perhaps I need to get out more.... or stay in more.... :-\ :-[
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2009, 02:12:47 PM »
Appropriately in a sunflower, Apollo (Parnassius apollo) but I have to confess I did a web search to check!  
The first butterfly I photographed was one of these, in the Pyrenees.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2009, 02:14:04 PM »
Quote from: Carol Shaw on March 28, 2009, 02:08:30 PM
Quote from: Ragged Robin on March 28, 2009, 01:42:18 PM
No Mark...they like canoodling in alpine meadows in the summer!

Chance would be a fine thing... still David & I are off to Austria in June  ;D :-* ;D

The butterflies above obviously thought 'chance' was a very fine thing!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2009, 02:14:13 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 28, 2009, 02:09:25 PM
Where there's life there's hope, eh, Carol??  ;D

You've got it Maggi! We've got flights from Aberdeen via Amsterdam to Vienna. 3 nights there and then on the train to Zell an See and up to Kaprun by bus. We have stayed there before in both the summer and the winter so know what to expect in terms of walking (which is sort of important for me now  :( ) So there will be lots of Alpine meadows for us to walk hand in hand through  ;D
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