Thanks, once again, for all the positive comments :D Sadly, that's it for hairstreaks... Florida has around 20 to see, but many are only on the wing 'Spring to Fall' and lots are Panhandle and Northern Florida only. I missed a few 'easy' ones like the Gray Hairsteak, Fulvous Hairstrak and the Gray M...

Sunday 21st November: Took a trip out to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. A large range of natural habitats popular for sightings of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. Other than butterflies we encountered American Alligators, Florida Soft-Shell Turtles, Barred Owls, Anhingas, Crey Catbirds, Pileated W...

Tuesday: Kennedy Space Center Wednesday: In Orlando - so.... Disney (where else?... at least the queues were tiny) Thurday: long drive to Sanibel Island on Gulf Coast + beach for sunset Friday: 10 mile walk on beach collecting seashells http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5008/5240737797_5f5aef6468.jpg S...

After a long evening journey up the coast we arrived in Cocoa Beach our 'base-camp' for the next two days. Monday 15th November. A morning walk along the beach brought nothing more than a few passing sulphurs and gulf fritillaries and a long-distance view of a single common buckeye in the scrub besi...

Thanks Charles :) I was pondering your question about moths again and I remembered I'd taken this rather blurry shot (it was moving like the clappers) of a caterpillar at Corkscrew Swamp. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5228673947_532c7c93c2.jpg I asked one of the rangers if she knew what it was...

In the afternoon of the 14th we visited 'Butterfly World' a few miles further south on the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale. It's an 'attraction' featuring 3 large butterfly-filled aviaries, an insect specimen museum, hummingbirds, lorikeets, a collection of passion flowers, gardens, a plant sales area ...

Moths? Oddly, no. I disturbed a few micro moths in the undergrowth trying to get a closer view of some of the butterflies and Tara took a very dark and blurry shot of a large grey-ish, brown-ish moth in Fairchild Tropical Gardens (more of which later) - but other than that the trip was distinctly mo...

Thanks for the comments :D I'll try to add a caption to each photograph with the common and latin names. Guy, the latin name for Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak is Strymon istapa so it looks like it's a different species. The others pictured so far were: White Checkered-Skipper ( Pyrgus albescens ) / Common...

So here goes... here's a kind of episodic diary/'loose' trip report (it was a very loose trip :wink: )for my 9 day holiday in Florida (13th-22nd Nov. 2010). My partner Tara and I arrived late in the evening on Saturday 13th and by the time we'd cleared the two-hour queue for immigration, driven up t...

Thanks Pete... I'll give it another go...

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Bah! No luck!

Is it not possible to link to a photo on Flikr? If so - what should the text look like between the two [img] brackets?

Sorry for the double post and please pardon my ignorance... I'm just learning...

Just testing to see if I can work out how to link to an image without posting in on this site. Fingers crossed....

I've just returned from a week-long jaunt around central and southern Florida where I managed to squeeze in a couple of butterfly expeditions between the endless rounds of shopping and sight-seeing. The weather was absolutely perfect - sunny, 75 degrees, and low-humidity. Many butterflies remain on ...

The Panasonic Lumix FZ38 is currently at £216 on Dixons interweb site. Has been as low as £212 on Amazon but much higher at the moment. I know it's not yet £150 but it's a little bit nearer...