Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes with Richard Williamson
If you know your butterflies, you should be laughing at this photograph of my foot. It was staken this July and shows a purple emperor feeding. Now I wash my feet every day, but in the tropical weather we had this year, they must have been humming.
I walk miles in the cause of seluthing stories for you, so that's my excuse. I was outside my back door when 'His Majesty' dropped by for a snack. Having no camera to hand, I kept dead still and called my wife out of the kitchen to bring the Pentax.
He stayed there for about ten minutes. I was even able to pick and choose my shots so as to gvet the famous royal purple flush the male of the species uses to attract his more dowdy mate.
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette, September 27