These were taken on our first day in Bhutan last year. We had just arrived and decided to just hang out at the guest house for a while to recover from the travel. I took the camera and explored the grounds a bit when I came across these unremarkable-looking, brownish-greyish butterflies:
Except that then one of them gave the game away: 
I don’t have better photos, unfortunately — these guys clearly know that they attract attention when they open their wings and prefer a life in obscurity. (But they definitely made us decide to invest in a macro lens.)
If anyone can put a name to them, I’d be most grateful. This would be a species that is comfortable living at high altitudes and fairly chilly temperatures in the Himalayas.
Advertisements
OMG, beautiful butterflies! Some of them can go easily undetected, but did not. Great flowers.
🙂
I don’t know thier name but I spent the summer chasing butterflies off and on and when I got home from the roadtrip, I bought a macro lens.
These guys really like to keep thier beauty hidden.
How beautiful! 🙂
Beautiful shot for this week themes
I don’t know the name, but I love the way they are slowly revealed.
they are gorgeous
Could be a Azure Sapphire Butterfly. Beautiful pictures!
I believe you’re right! http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayimage.php?id=61575
Thank you so much!
Pingback: Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden « Blog Archive « Yori Yuliandra | a photo blog
What a bright discovery! Very cool captures for this week’s challenge. : )
Hidden they are! But they have beautiful colors when they decide to let us see. The bottom shot has a little bee sharing……
So pretty!!