padfield wrote:... because it's my birthday today and my dog and I are sharing a barrel of beer (she doesn't drink). Guy

Happy Birthday, Guy!

Bryan

I'll wait for Gruditch to sort out the photo's and when that done it should be pretty striaght forward. Hi Shirley, Don't worry about Gruditch and Sussex Kipper - they'll simply get you the photos as chosen by them and whoever they rope in to help them. Pete I see you made your mind up, Shirley. Go...

What a splendid, conciliatory post, Roger! I'm afraid I come into the "glass of wine too many" category once in a while, and I apologise if I have caused offence to any on this forum. Perhaps you should be the forum counsellor, Roger? I mean, it's not as if your photography is any good. Da...

...I have served my apprenticeship in the UK, some three decades trekking around Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire and many other places, and now live in France for the six summer months where I can indulge my passion every day. It’s good – try it. I accept that a non-UK butterfly will never win because ...

...And that reminds me of some little story of whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was a man. Anyone come across that cos I can't remembe rthe context now? Lynn, you may have seen it in "An Obsession with Butterflies" by Sharman Apt Russell (William...

Dave,

Looks like a sting to me...

Bryan

Bryan

Pete Eeles wrote:Very good! I guess you should provide another

Cheers,

- Pete

Pete, perhaps throw it open to all as I'm going to be away from a computer for a few days...

Bryan

Lycaena dispar, being the scientific name for the extinct Large copper and an anagram of "any arid places".

I guess this was a bit obscure.

I'll get me coat

Bryan

Here's a cryptic poser:

This butterfly used to be seen here in (scientifically speaking) any arid places...

Bryan

Felix,

Would this be the wholesale removal of scrub from the chalk grassland of southern England? Especially, in cases such as the Poldens, where this has happened in an attempt to support the reintroduction of the Large Blue?

Bryan

padfield wrote: ...you thought we'd all be grown up and well adjusted?? Guy

Just you then, Guy!

Ooh, someone at the door!

Agent Scully is coming round for dinner - that must be her now!

Nurse, can you get the door, please...



Bryan

I'm enjoying this thread tremendously! Thanks for the wonderful photos, Roger; also Guy, for that exposition and close-up of the silver line. The Red-underwing skipper has gone to the top of my 'must see one day' list. It may be France's smallest, but that's one laid-back dude of a butterfly! Any id...

Bryan

Gruditch wrote:...and SteveH, for all the reasons Bryan H said, but surely that's a Small White Gruditch

Might be.....

Bryan

What a splendid competition this month! Thank you for the feedback, Roger. What a feat of diplomacy! You have been particularly kind to some of us also-rans and ne'er-do-wells! Well done to the those on the podium - I think this has been the hardest monthly competition to vote on to date. I would li...

This is me at Old Winchester Hill recently. Have sword, but forgot me bloomin' camera again!





Bryan

When I gaze in your ocelli My brush-feet turn to jelly. I don't care what your age is If you haven't got a sphragis. Guy Guy, I see you've lowered the tone the moment Pete has gone on holiday :) Take heart from this graceful, old couple, who still know how to get it on prior to (or is that after) a...

Hmmm. I can't see it. Some photos have scroll bars, but that's it. Could someone please email me a screenshot and I'll look into it? Thanks. pete@ukbutterflies.co.uk Or post it here so that we can agree that this is the same problem! Cheers, - Pete It's okay, Pete. I've selected a higher screen res...

On a quite different topic, does anyone else find that many pictures are clipped on the right-hand side? ... Guy I have the same problem, Guy. The June competition entries by Chris and Trev Sawyer are noticeably affected in this way. But when I view these pictures on my computer at work, I can see ...