Three members of the brown family of butterflies for today’s posts. All have eye spots on their wings to try to scare off predators. All are about the same size and have similar silhouettes.
Ringlets are brown in colour, sometimes darker and sometimes paler. They seem to spend most of their time flitting around even if no-one is near, but especially if someone does approach them. So it is rare that they stay still long enough to get a good look at them to see the somewhat indistinct markings clearly.
They have multiple eye spots on the under surface of the wings, but just vague darker areas above.