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Swallowtail Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

Taken in Norfolk, the Swallowtail butterfly is a rare Butterfly which feed on the Milk parsley in the well managed fens of Norfolk....
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Taken in Norfolk, the Swallowtail butterfly is a rare Butterfly which feed on the Milk parsley in the well managed fens of Norfolk.
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Canon EOS 7D

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 800 Shutter 1/1250

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Sep, 2013

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Beautiful butterfly.

This species of Swallowtail is rare and is restricted to the Norfolk Broads, here is a link giving some information on the British Swallowtail.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10876770

Very good image of a difficult subject.

Beautiful!

Beautiful! Love the angle that this capture was caught at

Great colors. It really caught my eye.

Great capture!

Platinum

Beautiful photo, love your color and detail, very nice!

amazing!

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