European Gardening: Male Gatekeeper, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Thanks rannveig!

Thanks Bonitin!

Pat, I think yours is a Wall Brown. I had one some time ago, first I have seen it, it was flitting up into the conker tree earlier in the day and I though by what I saw it was a Wall Brown. Later I was taking pics of various whites on the Lythrum salicaria I have growing at the water's edge (no water!) and it came along and fed but I had a job getting a good pic.

Most butterflies are nervous for a start, after all we could be a bird about to eat them. I find after they get used to me I can get to within 6" of them, but if they don't come back you just have to get what you can.