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- Thu Sep 12, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5169
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Re: Trevor
Hi Trevor. It's still a bit early to say how good the 3rd brood of Wall Brown will be. I am quietly confident that it could be half decent with all the lush grasses around for the feeding larvae. But, since the 3rd brood started to fly, we have only had 2 or 3 days of decent weather, and even those ...
- Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5169
- Views: 986707
Re: Trevor
A cracking butterfly Trevor. They don't come much more special than that one.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: January 2024
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18484
Re: January 2024
This is the other image that Vince referred to in the previous post. This was taken by a panic stricken Badgerbob on the mobile phone when he realised what was happening as the camera was already in the car ready for the trip for Bearded Tits and the macro lens was upstairs in a cupboard. It was a c...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: January 2024
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18484
Re: January 2024
As everyone should know, it's a good idea to clean out your birdfeeders. Yesterday, 26th January, I was in the garden doing exactly that, when 2 Red Admirals were suddenly flying around my head. As I watched them, my first butterflies of the year, they landed next to each other on the wall of the ho...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: Large Tortoiseshell
- Topic: Large Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13026
Re: Large Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2023
My only sighting this year was from Abbots Wood on Good Friday. There was the Birling Gap LT showing, which was local to us, but Lisa and I decided to head out for Abbotts Wood, where I had seen one in 2021. Just as we were about to give up I came across this one resting on a tree trunk. After rumma...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: Competitions
- Topic: Annual 2023 Competition
- Replies: 60
- Views: 78859
Re: Annual 2023 Competition
My 3 efforts from Sussex.
Re: May 2023
With reference to the Silver-washed Fritillary that Bugboy found at Chiddingfold, I think it looks like a different individual to the one I had just over a fortnight earlier, as there is a part of the left hind-wing missing on mine that appears to be there on his. As an aside, there was also a suspe...
Re: May 2023
Good to see Dave (millerd) in Tugley. After seeing him we did see a few more Wood White, probably 4 or 5. However, the biggest surprise was the discovery of a female Silver-washed Fritillary flying along the ride just up from the bridge over the stream. What it was doing there at this time of year i...
- Sun May 14, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5169
- Views: 986707
Re: Trevor
Good to see you too Trevor. I must confess it got a little too busy for me after showing you the mating pair of Dukes. I had a feeling someone would move them. It was a bit of a shame as they did actually look extremely good where they were, and they were so content, but such is life!!
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: April 2023
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6847
Re: April 2023
My annual frustrations at searching for Wall Brown pupa continued over the weekend. I thought I had found one, amazingly in the first tussock I checked, but after thinking at the time that it looked a little different, on looking at the 'Life Cycles' book when I got home it turned into my first ever...
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: 2023 - Large Tortoiseshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 45968
Re: 2023 - Large Tortoiseshell
Graham Hubbard had one visit his garden in Woodingdean, East Sussex, on Good Friday 7/4/2023. Quite a worn specimen. Details and photos on the Sussex sightings page.
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 4:56 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: 2023 - Large Tortoiseshell
- Replies: 72
- Views: 45968
Re: 2023 - Large Tortoiseshell
The Large Tortoiseshell from Abbotts Wood in East Sussex on Good Friday 7/4/2023.
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:19 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: March 2023
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6929
Re: March 2023
The BBC weather says it is only 5 degrees out there today in north Seaford, and it does indeed feel very cold, so it was a bit of a surprise to spot a Peacock flying around the garden. Needless to say, the poor butterfly soon found a place in the vegetation to go back to sleep. 5/3/2023.
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: millerd
- Replies: 5949
- Views: 796744
Re: millerd
A bit late to the party but big congrats for the fabulous Brimstone shot Dave.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:02 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: October 2022
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5384
Re: October 2022
Also a Long-tailed Blue at Beachy Head on Sunday 23rd. Seen and photographed by my son. Found by Laurance Pitcher.
- Fri May 20, 2022 7:01 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5169
- Views: 986707
Re: Trevor
Going back to the 'Chocolate' scented scent scales, I picked this info up a few years ago from the brilliant Butterflies of Britain and Ireland by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Lewington. It's mentioned in that book so when I saw the courtship one day, and there was nobody else around, I got down on my ...
- Sat May 14, 2022 8:17 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5169
- Views: 986707
Re: Trevor
Morning Trevor. It's certainly a case of the male trying to seduce the female with his scent scales, which have a slight whiff of chocolate believe it or not!! The male will try to circle around the female flapping like mad sending his scent scales over her, so I guess in the course of all this he g...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:55 am
- Forum: Wall
- Topic: Wall - Favourite Photo of 2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 930
Re: Wall - Favourite Photo of 2021
I was lucky to come across a near perfect female Wall Brown late in the 1st brood on my local patch on 10th June. A mating pair during the 2nd brood was also good to see, also on my patch.
- Fri Feb 04, 2022 10:06 am
- Forum: Large Tortoiseshell
- Topic: Large Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1039
Re: Large Tortoiseshell - Favourite Photo of 2021
Even later than Trevor was, my Large Tortoiseshell was from 31st March in Abbotts Wood. Found on the ground where it appeared to be holding territory, seen chasing Peacocks and returning to the same spot, only to then be seen chasing another large pair of butterflies that were probably Peacock, but ...
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:46 am
- Forum: Large Heath
- Topic: Large Heath - Favourite Photo of 2021
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1190
Re: Large Heath - Favourite Photo of 2021
I was lucky enough to have a short trip to Scotland with my son Matt this year in June, mainly looking for dragonflies, but we did see 2 Large Heath around Loch Maree, these were actually the only butterflies we saw in Scotland. The first time I'd seen the scotica race too.