Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Do you have a butterfly mating picture?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
There was a lot of these around, and they always seemed to be at it!

I had a Gatekeeper laying on the ground on it's side looking like it was dead, another came up near to it and I was thinking the poor thing was dead or dying, I could have taken a shot and left them to it but was curious and ended up scaring them off, I think I touched it to see if it moved, spoiled a good photo op. there!

Here's another series of the 'warm up' period, the sun was very bright from the wrong direction but no other way to take them, this male was either more experienced at snogging or a little more amorous!