It's a good time of year to be on the Great Orme and there are really good numbers of silver-studded blue and cistus forester on the wing at the moment, plus all of the usual flowers putting on a great show.
Cistus forester
Cistus forester and common rockrose.
Common rockrose.
Grayling, not too difficult to see close up, but further away it gets a bit more difficult, it even replicates the orange lichen in the wing!
Female silver-studded blue.
The same photo zoomed in and cropped.
Male at silver-studded blue.
Sunday, 26 June 2016
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