Just in: hiding butterfly and frog
Two first sightings in the peat bog for this year.
The first is a butterfly called small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus), hooibeestje in Dutch, which translates as "small hay beast". The Dutch name is very apt, as these little butterflies like to hide in deep grass.
Their hiding makes them a pain to photograph. You usually have to put the camera on the ground to get the proper angle and shoot through the clutter of the grass. Just when you are set up, they will fly away, and when they retract the orange top wing, they become very difficult to spot.
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/200s
Then there was this common frog (Rana temporaria) emerging from the peat moss. It may be called "common frog", but in the local peat bog here, these brown frogs are few and far between compared to their green brethren called water frogs (Pelophylax):
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/60s
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