I'm a long-time fan of HIM but new to this site. I thought I'd share my very grainy pic of a couple of upside-down male emperors, which I snapped from afar as they were engaged in dogfights above the canopy at Buck's Horn Oak, Alice Holt Forest, one day in mid July this year.
That was the best view I had of emperors that day, but a couple of days later my brother and I came across a very obliging male taking salts in the middle of the main ride in nearby Straits Inclosure. I've put the pics on my Flickr site here:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=80824395%40N08&view_all=1&text=%22purple%20emperor%22
Though I hail from Hampshire, I now live the other side of the world, in Tasmania, so I doubt I'll get another chance to watch the emperors again for a while. But the happy memories will linger.
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