More green hairstreaks!

More what? Green hairstreaks (Callophrys rubi) are butterflies. About two weeks ago I saw one of these for the first time in my life, and I made a record of that on the blockchain.

As these things often go, not a week later, on a walk in the Haaksbergerveen near the German border in The Netherlands, we saw a tree full of them! I took some more photos, because it is a really beautiful little butterfly.

Here's one eating:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 135mm, ISO100, f8, 1/400s}

Here's one unsuccesfully pretending to be a leaf:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f8, 1/500s}

And finally, a portrait shot:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO100, f8, 1/200s}

Some unusual antics involving trees were required to make these photos, but nobody got hurt.