Butterfly hunting / Голландские бабочки

It was a nice, sunny day here in The Netherlands, so I went out butterfly hunting. I first made a bee line to the forest flowers, but all I found were hoverflies pretending to be wasps:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/500s}

It turned out the butterflies weren't busy eating, but basking in the sun further on, like this small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae):

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/200s}

I also found a European Peacock (Aglais io) that refused to sit on a pretty background, but I suppose it is pretty enough all of its own:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/250s}

The hunt goes on ...

Thanks for watching!