Dear Avisek, This is indeed a very interesting and new information about Crimson Rose. Similar congregations and migration of this butterfly Kanyakumari during December.Could you tell us more about your observations at Gopalpur.Thanks!Isaac
See my Butterfly Images:http://www.flickr.com/photos/26689...@n00/ --- On Wed, 25/8/10, Avisek Chatterjee <[email protected]> wrote: From: Avisek Chatterjee <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly: Crimson Rose in Gopalpur 21st Aug 2010 To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 3:24 AM Hi All, Last weekend I was off to Gopalpur, a sea beach in Orissa-Andhra border for a normal trip with office colleagues(strictly not for birding). But Gopalpur gave me some interesting find. There were atleast 1000s of Crimson Rose butterfly flying here and there. I saw a few Common Rose but it was hard to spot a Common Mormon there. It seems that place is the den for all Crimson Roses. Although in huge numbers but it gave me a real tough time to shoot one as it sits little and if so also it keeps on flattering its wings. At last I managed to take a few shots and these two open and close wing images are the results. :-) Also to mention this place is really good for raptor watchers and photographers as a place was full of raptors whole day long, mostly black kite and brahminy kites. Location: Gopalpur. State: Orissa.Date: 21st August 2010 Type of Species: Butterfly.Species Name: Crimson Rose. Cheers,Avisek. -- Enjoy
