I was still at school when I started learning my butterflies from Warden Nigel Phillips, on the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Naturalist's Trust's Warburg Reserve near Henley-on-Thames.

Been spotting, and photographing, them ever since.
Mating Common Blues, Llanymynech, PowysFreshly Painted Lady, on BuddleiaComma 1: topsideComma 2: Underside, see the comma?Green Hairstreak, Skyborry, ShropshireBrown RingletWall Brown, Berkshire DownsChalkhill Blue, Berkshire DownsPeacock, on BuddleiaSpeckled Wood, HerefordshireRed Admiral on IvyCommon Blue (f)