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Next is a meadow brown. This has only one white dot in the eye-spot on the wing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The marbled white is always a very pretty butterfly to see, and they are doing well this year.<\/p>\n Adding a touch of colour are the small skippers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The final shots aren’t butterflies. These are six-spot burnets, a common variety of day-flying moths.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To close, another very familiar sight (if look closely for them). Red soldier beetles, caught in the act (they seemingly do nothing else). This is my first proper blog attempt on the WordPress site. You can expand the images by clicking on them. I’ll attempt to play around with the image settings in future posts. This small selection of butterflies was photographed on the South Downs yesterday. First up is a gatekeeper, identified via the two small white […]<\/p>\n","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nCamera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens or EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"