A photographer has captured remarkable photos of endangered butterflies flying off flowers at a nature preserve in the U.K., British news agency SWNS reports.

Bob Hill: 'Monarchs are in peril' Why I added a butterfly waystation to our back field. Bob Hill. ... Some 82 lightly caged Monarchs were ready to test their orange and black wings and fly free.

The field was being used as part of the Big Butterfly Count, a national survey backed by Sir David in which the public is being asked to spot and record 17 species of butterfly.