{"id":1381,"date":"2009-05-05T23:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1381"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:29:10","slug":"tip-of-the-day-and-a-flying-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/tip-of-the-day-and-a-flying-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Day &#8211; and a flying wolf (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No luck with the foxes today, so the &#39;tip&#39; in the title isn&#39;t a white tip. It&#39;s an orange tip. <\/p>\n<p>These very pretty butterflies were out in number. They&#39;re small and highly mobile, so it&#39;s a case of grabbing what you can when they briefly touch down on a plant. The males are easy to identify (the orange tip is the clue). The females are white, but share the same green lace pattern as the male on the underwing. In flight they are very similar to other white butterflies so are easily overlooked. I mention it because today I did manage to positively spot a female. But first the male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orange_tip_butterfly_0505091248.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orange_tip_butterfly_0505091248.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"orange tip butterfly\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Orange tip butterfly (male)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was watching him a second small butterfly fluttered into view. About the same size, it was white and the underwing had the pattern. The fact that it was flying in formation with the male also helped the i.d. None of the shots I managed show the marking, but this is the pair of them together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orange_tip_butterfly_x2_0505091231.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orange_tip_butterfly_x2_0505091231.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"orange tip butterflies, male and female\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Male and female orange-tip butterflies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh and I also saw this&#8230; the nearest I&#39;m likely to get to seeing a flying wolf. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bell_222_helicopter_0505091188.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A Bell 222, the basis for the 1980s &#39;Airwolf&#39; TV series.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[992,1],"tags":[537,1144],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-uncategorized","tag-airwolf","tag-butterfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}