What Butterfly Please?

[Rolfe 2]

Not a very good picture but someone will identify it for sure.........is it a Meadow Brown? I was walking a silage field prior to being cut today.........and counting the well used rabbit runs for a snaring session. These little fellows were everywhere........i have never seen so many in one area before..........but they are certainly prolific around here.

[fish 148]

Not a very good picture but someone will identify it for sure.........is it a Meadow Brown? I was walking a silage field prior to being cut today.........and counting the well used rabbit runs for a snaring session. These little fellows were everywhere........i have never seen so many in one area before..........but they are certainly prolific around here.

looks like one to me bud

[Guest greengrass123]

Looks more like a small heath to me mate.

[fish 148]

Looks more like a small heath to me mate.

yep i think your right bud

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Bloody hell! Aren't those two Murder?! MB and SH, I mean!

 

I don't really Do butterflys, Rolfie. More a moth man. But I do happen to have the photographic field guide by Tom Tolman to hand. I checked. My god it's close! But, owing to the subdued areas on that one? Yeppers; My money's on SH.

 

If no one had mentioned that one and I'd looked only at MB, I'd have assumed it must be a MB though. They really are that close!

[Rolfe 2]

Bloody hell! Aren't those two Murder?! MB and SH, I mean!

 

I don't really Do butterflys, Rolfie. More a moth man. But I do happen to have the photographic field guide by Tom Tolman to hand. I checked. My god it's close! But, owing to the subdued areas on that one? Yeppers; My money's on SH.

 

If no one had mentioned that one and I'd looked only at MB, I'd have assumed it must be a MB though. They really are that close!

Thanks Guys.........I really wouldn't know the difference between the two to be honest........but the general consensus seems to lean towards the SH........Something else i have learned ..........god... the more we learn the less we know eh.

 

Rolfe.

[fish 148]

Bloody hell! Aren't those two Murder?! MB and SH, I mean!

 

I don't really Do butterflys, Rolfie. More a moth man. But I do happen to have the photographic field guide by Tom Tolman to hand. I checked. My god it's close! But, owing to the subdued areas on that one? Yeppers; My money's on SH.

 

If no one had mentioned that one and I'd looked only at MB, I'd have assumed it must be a MB though. They really are that close!

Thanks Guys.........I really wouldn't know the difference between the two to be honest........but the general consensus seems to lean towards the SH........Something else i have learned ..........god... the more we learn the less we know eh.

 

Rolfe.

they look the same but the sh is smaller

[byron 1,279]

Not a very good picture but someone will identify it for sure.........is it a Meadow Brown? I was walking a silage field prior to being cut today.........and counting the well used rabbit runs for a snaring session. These little fellows were everywhere........i have never seen so many in one area before..........but they are certainly prolific around here.

here,s a small heath.. its a meadow brown rolfe..

[byron 1,279]

Not a very good picture but someone will identify it for sure.........is it a Meadow Brown? I was walking a silage field prior to being cut today.........and counting the well used rabbit runs for a snaring session. These little fellows were everywhere........i have never seen so many in one area before..........but they are certainly prolific around here.

and here,s a meadow brown, rolfe..

[Rolfe 2]

It is definately a Meadow Brown then............there is a marked difference between the two when you compare the two pictures......! Thanks Byron.

[byron 1,279]

It is definately a Meadow Brown then............there is a marked difference between the two when you compare the two pictures......! Thanks Byron.

and about a third of the size [small heath]