Small Heath (?)

We stood in one spot in a meadow for a few minutes and counted at least 5 different butterflies, three types of dragonfly and spotted some crickets.

[katy]

FAV love the subject and composition!

[Corinne C]

A nice capture

[Diana]

How beautiful!

[Nigel Rogers]

Beautiful

[Mags]

Super closeup!

[Joanne Diochon]

Lovely capture.

[Kathy]

Nice close up of this butterfly on the thistle.

[Susan Wakely]

Perfectly posed for you.

[Peter]

Stunning closeup detail and colour Jackie:)

[haskar]

Great close up.

[Rob Z]

Super catch!

[Babs]

Well done. I can stand for ages and not get a decent photo of a dragonfly or a butterfly.

[narayani]

How wonderful!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I'm not sure what kind of butterfly it is, but I know it's landed on a thistle! Beautiful shot.

[wendy frost]

Brilliant capture and details.

[Kathy A]

I hope he treads carefully on that thistle

[Shutterbug]

That sounds like a wonderful photo walk. Beautiful pov and comp.

[Cazzi]

You were lucky that this one stayed around long enough for you to take it's photo - brilliant!

[Brian]

Wow!