Here are just a few of the butterfly photos I took during summer, as a pick-me-up for the winter blues.
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It's mid winter here in New Zealand and the weather is cold and dreary. Here are just a few of the butterfly photos I took during summer, as a pick-me-up for the winter blues. Click on each picture, below, to see a larger view..... It's July and that means Winter in New Zealand. July is usually cold and wet and not conducive to butterflies. But wait. Our 2016 Winter is vastly different to previous Winters here. Our Winter temperatures are showing themselves to be 2 degrees Celsius higher than usual for the time of year. This is said to be due to persistent high-pressure systems blocking to the east, enabling very mild northerly winds to continue blowing from the north down the country. On days when it is not raining, we are having very cold early mornings followed by a gloriously hot sunny day. On such a hot sunny afternoon, the other day, I happened to be passing one of my favourite locations for Long-tailed Blue and Common Blue photography during Summer. To my delight, there they still were. Not as many as I see in Summer, nevertheless there were at least six different blue butterflies flicking about and soaking up the sun. See my photos of them, below. As a side issue, our unusually warm temperatures for the time of year also means that we still have wasps, aphids, praying mantis and other bugs we wouldn't usually see at this time, still about - and I still have Monarch caterpillars coming along, but that's another story. Click on each picture, below, to see a larger view......... A happy Julie is Julie with camera in hand and grovelling around in the grass and weeds, usually on all fours, searching for butterflies. It's amusing the number of people who stop and ask what on earth I am doing.
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Opua, New Zealand. Keen butterfly photographer and raises Monarch Butterflies for release. " I'm crazy about butterflies and enjoy sharing the beauty and wonder of their transformations." VIDEO
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