Hi I go quite a lot and stayed over last year and had a great time. You really do need to stay overnight as after lunchtime you don't get any more of the boat trips and you can take your time in the valley without hundreds of people on flip flops on a route march to the waterfall. The bungalows are ...

As stated above I don't have a problem with butterfly events such as Wisley as the butterflies have a reasonable life. I have more difficulty with farming butterflies for things such as jewellery and paper weights where they are killed almost immediately they emerge to ensure they are in pristine c...

I did worry, at the Natural History Museum butterfly house last year, that there were a lot of butterflies in a small space and there was a lot of what appeared to be territorial interaction going on. Must be stressful at some level to the animals? They do have the potential to be great educational ...

dilettante wrote:Nice, but can we leave Vince to create the 'favourite photo' topics, please? He's doing them in a phased way, three species per week.

It's not great, but its a Wall and there isn't another photo here yet

Now you know why

sorry do you want me to delete then?

It's not great, but its a Wall and there isn't another photo here yet


140511-05 by legless2007, on Flickr


14th May 2011 at Compton Farm, Compton Bay, Isle of Wight. My first ever Wall and my only one so far

Jo

A thread in which to post your favourite photo(s) of 2011 of Wall. Part of a series inspred by ChrisC's thread about 'Favourite Photos' and hopefully growing throughout the winter until all 58 British species have been covered. Details of places, dates, times and circumstances also appreciated. Feel...

Beautiful Red Admiral yesterday near Cirencester, sadly no Brown Hairstreak eggs which were what we were really looking for! Still that's my first butterfly of the year.

Jo

what a great idea and a lovely book, i've done these when i've been travelling but I hadn't thought of recording my butterfly year like this. I couldn't hope for photos as good as yours though

Jo

1. taking 3 friends (1 who does butterflies, and 2 who need more convincing) Swallowtail hunting by boat (non drivers have to be creative when butterflying and you can moor at Hickling Broad!). 2. Heddon Valley for High Brown Fritillaries, I started following butterflies after a National Trust holid...

marmari wrote:A beautiful day on the Isle of Wight today and still another Red Admiral to be seen in my back garden enjoying the sun.
Not the individual from a few days ago but one in much better condition and hopefully a must for next season.

beautiful!

David M wrote:Do you mean the AGM hosted by Gloucester branch? If so then this takes place on Saturday 19th November.

No I can walk to that one! The Gloucestershire branch AGM is on the 12th

Jo

Hi

is anyone driving from Cheltenham to the Gloucestershire Branch AGM next Saturday (12th)? If so can I cadge a lift please?

Jo

there were small blue at Prestbury on Sunday, right at the bottom of the reserve there was a lovely small colony - flittering around like confetti.

Lovely day at Prestbury Hill today. Lots of Marbled Whites and Gatekeepers, plenty of Dark Green Fritillaries and a Small Blue colony like a cloud of glittering confetti. Silver Washed Fritillary, Small Skippers, Small Heaths, Large and Small Whites, Red Admirals, Speckled Woods, a Comma and some Pe...

Hummingbird Hawkmoth?

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/s ... _moth.html

I love them, you can hear the wings can't you?

If you have an OS map and you are around Prestbury Hill then there is a footpath up Harp Hill and around the Glenfall Estate that is usually pretty productive. Beautiful meadows surrounded by woodland and some good hedgerows. I hope the weather is ok for you.

there's a butterfly conservation trip there for Walls on the 24th so I should think it is a good site. Not been myself yet. I'm off to Fermyn Woods this weekend.

Hello everyone, this is me in butterfly mode (Compton Down this May), i'm not usually this orange, but the hair is.

Jo


140511-61 by legless2007, on Flickr

I popped in to the butterfly house at the NHM yesterday and now i'm pondering.... It was fantastic to see literally hundreds of big tropical butterflies on the wing but it seemed rather crowded. There was lots of chasing, assuming territorial behaviour. Is it a very stressful environment for the ani...

Thank you both!