BUTTERFLY

[macmac]

While clearing up pots down the lottie I encountered this beauty :)
I don't know what it is but it was a lovely sight on a cold grey afternoon  :)

[macmac]

[Flighty]

Lucky you, that's a lovely Peacock Butterfly I reckon!  :)

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1895

[Ninnyscrops.]

Beautiful specimen, you were lucky to be able to put the coin down and it didn't fly off!  :)

Ninny

[macmac]

I was sorting pots and disturbed it so it took a while to wake up,I had to run down to the shed to get my camera and it was flexing it's wings I think to perhaps warm up.The 10p was to give an idea of scale as I'd never seen a butterfly that big.
Thankyou Flighty for identifying it for me  :)