Here is his cousin taken about 5.30pm in my field two miles west of Botany Bay

I also think I spotted a reference to a possible Small Skipper on a BC Branch website, but this hadn't been centrally logged as of this evening. And now I can't find it! Dave And now I have found it - Sussex BC site, 19th May. However, the description doesn't sound 100% convincing... Dave I caught ...

Taken with Canon 7D and Canon EF 100mm f2.8L Macro IS USM handheld f8, 1/125th sec, ISO 200

Thank for posting the image details along with a brilliant photo. It's helpful to numbskulls like myself to see what can be done. Was it manual or AF and viewfinder or live view?

Here is a Brimstone ovipositing yesterday and then the same insect taking a rest out of the wind.

Is this little thug a Grizzled? If so he is another new species for me and my garden.

I bought myself a CanoScan 9000F with a view to using it for slides on a wet weekend. We haven't had any rain in the past few months. I just opened the "film guide" packet and it seem to cater for 35mm - 120 negatives. As a scanner it's fast, none of the hanging about whilst it calibrates ...

I live two miles west of Botany Bay and have never seen a Wall but now that you point out the similarities I shall gives the Speckled Woods a second glance.

I might have used the tripod as a weapon if the picture-taker had had one but the camera only boasted a 300mm plastic, third party zoom lens that can be bought for £99 on EBay - that's probably why they needed to get so close. Mind you, the camera was a Canon 5D.

The western wall. Historically (and right into the 20th century) it was customary to bury still born, and those that perished prior to being christened, just within the western wall and without a marker. The ground was often left unconsecrated for this purpose and the infants were laid to rest here...

Returning to the subject of photographers who should have their nose rubbed in it ..... I was part of a BC walk today and was standing minding my own business watching a caterpillar on a blade of grass about 6 inches in front of my foot through my binoculars when I saw a photographer's foot oblitera...

Two new species for me in my garden, a Green Hairstreak and a Brown Argus.

It is a Brown Argus ?

That reminds me. I got some petrol the other day. It cost £6 5s 3¼d per gallon. Jack More than my first weekly salary when I started work full time, but when I was a teenager I got the agricultural rate of 10 3/4d an hour for filling 2 cwt sacks on the combine. And yes I much prefer my DSLR to my B...

Good pictures of such a small bug and thanks for your answer because I found several in my hedge yesterday and wondered what/who they were.

The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly
For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

William Blake: Auguries of Innocence

Didn't we discuss this a couple of years ago, and in the end agreed to adopt the BC policy. :D UK Butterflies home page - Resources drop down menu - policies - photography Regards Gruditch This led me to In the case of the various species given full legal protection in each part of the United Kingd...

Send it down here to Surrey where we haven't had a drop for at least a month. I too am eyeing up the wild flowers in my field with a view to sneaking the sprinklers out there one evening soon. The real problem of no rain will be that there is nothing to germinate fresh seed. We have about 40 kilos o...

This e-mail was sent out by Butterfly Conservation - Hooray, they are on the ball for once - Dear Branch colleagues A very worrying consultation has recently been announced by Government which is considering the scrapping of various environmental laws. I am emailing Branch committee members to ask y...

Yes there is bugle just coming into flower, apart from its herbal properties I always wondered what its use might be, many thanks for that advice.

Riding my quad along the edge of the wood yesterday a glimpse of something distinctly golden with a black pattern flashed past me. I have never seen a Pearl B, could this have been one? Nothing in the book looked quite as golden as I remember this one.

John

Thanks, I'll dig the 180 macro out of the dustbin and try again and maybe stick to non-vibrating butterflies.