peacock

Butterfly heaven! A Peacock Butterfly soaks up the warm spring sun while sipping on the nectar of a Flowering Currant in a North Norfolk garden. Taken from 4.7metres (15.5ft) away with a telephoto lens at ISO 2500 and heavily cropped rather than with a macro lens hence the lack of fine detail!

Head-on

The name says it all

The first and only for quite some time

Like an artist's palette

Like an artist's palette

Like an artist's palette

Peacock Butterfly

A lonely Peacock amongst the Painted Ladies and Small Tortoiseshell.

White Peacock (Inertia jatrophae: Nymphalidae) Wingspan 5.0-7.4 cm (2.0-2.9 in).

Today we celebrate 69th Republic Day & so here is a head portrait of our beautiful national bird. A full framer.

Thank you for your comments on my picture of a yellow shell. Not a moth today but a common butterfly , so beautiful I was very happy when I found it in the middle of bramble bushes .

Dancing peacock, taken at Chitwan National Park, Nepal

These guys obvious escape from a local 'big house' in the area and go wandering round the town. They landed on the shed in my neighbour's garden and even at that distance they look huge. I first saw them in the area about 2009.... then nothing until the summer of last year, then another visit...

Sitting in a hide waiting for a Nuthatch or Willow Tit when this Peacock turned up. I thought it looked spectacular in the sunny woodland setting. An escapee from somewhere....

.... or... This was going to be There's Always One ... but by the time I'd clicked, the middle one decided to have a snooze, so rather spoilt that little joke. Over to you for a suitable title now LOL This group suddenly appeared in the neighbour's garden yesterday afternoon and had a wander...

male peafowl - predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots.

There was a small patch of flowers on a gentle slope that attracted over 10 different species of butterflies hanging around.

Goodness... I was watching the tennis from Wimbledon at the end of June, when this colourful Peacock, first landed on the shed roof, then flew across to the roof of the Adult Resource Centre beside me. He wandered about up there, then flew down to the ground and back up again! A local hotel...

Just a full frame head portrait for today. I never get satisfied or tired of shooting these marvelous creatures.

The Indian Peafowl in full regalia is an impressive sight

Peacock feeding.