Butterflies before breakfast

I was trying to trace a persistent error message in my camera and eventually found that it was due to a lost set of photos taken two years ago. I’d taken them during an early morning walk to look for birds inside Nameri national park, on the border between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. On the way back we saw a large number of butterflies in a space of about 15 minutes. I managed to photograph a few of them. This is what biodiversity means!

Mud-pooling chocolate grass yellow, Eurema sari

Grey pansy, Junonia atleites

Chocolate tiger, Parantica melaneus

Peacock pansy, Junonia almana. There’s plastic inside the forest

Open wings of the common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra

Lemon pansy, Junonia lemonias

Male and female chocolate albatross, Appias lyncida

Just waking up – a common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra

A mud-pooling pair of chocolate albatross, Appias lyncida

Common evening brown, Melanitis leda, in the morning