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- Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:19 pm
- Forum: Sites
- Topic: Today I went to...
- Replies: 3
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- Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:39 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Proliferation of Clouded Yellows?
- Replies: 15
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I was on Gilling Down today looking for brown hairstreak and didn't see a single one. But I saw literally dozens of clouded yellows plus several of the helice form that were so pale as to appear white when flying. http://upload4.postimage.org/813928/clouded.jpg http://upload4.postimage.org/813931/he...
- Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:18 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Pale Small Copper
- Replies: 8
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- Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:04 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: What is this? is it a small heath?
- Replies: 3
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- Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:34 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Adonis blue in wilts?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1700
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Favourites
- Replies: 16
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- Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:17 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Small blue second brood?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3103
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:06 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: brown hairstreak
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4052
I spent another three hours trawling Somerford Common for brown hairstreak, concentrating on coppice and the more open areas, but didn't see a single one. I met a guy who seemed to know a bit about butterflies and suggested I looked around the northern edge where there were hedgerows but there was n...
- Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:44 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: 5 spot burnet identification
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1043
5 spot burnet identification
Can anyone give me any tips on how to differentiate 5 spot burnet from narrow bordered 5 spot burnet?
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Skippers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1372
It's the underside of the antennae tips that you have to look for. It's difficult....
Here's one I took earlier:
http://upload4.postimage.org/660835/photo_hosting.html
Here's one I took earlier:
http://upload4.postimage.org/660835/photo_hosting.html
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:35 pm
- Forum: Sites
- Topic: Dolebury Warren
- Replies: 0
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Dolebury Warren
This is a splendid site to take the family with stunning views over the Somerset Levels and the Severn Estuary beyond. But it is supposed to be a site for small blue, and sadly, today it wasn't. I did see common and holly blue, silver washed fritillary, brown argus (that I kept examining - is that a...
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: Sites
- Topic: Where is "your" best spot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2565
Somerford Common is supposed to be good for brown hairstreak and is about 45 minutes from Bath. I found a good selection of many other butterflies when I went there a month ago. Closer still are Morgan's Hill, Bannerdown and Hazelbury Common. Fontmell Down near Shaftsbury is, I'd estimate, about an ...
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:05 pm
- Forum: Sites
- Topic: Where is "your" best spot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2565
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:56 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Common Blue/Brown Argus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3424
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:47 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: female Common blue?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1680
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:37 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: brown hairstreak
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4052
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: A Painted Lady season?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3199
Red admirals are plentiful too with many newly emerged adults. And talking of wanderers, my local Avon Wildlife Trust reserve at Willsbridge, which is a small suburban site with woodland and a few open patches, had a male silver washed fritillary feeding on its buddliea bush for the last three days,...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:36 pm
- Forum: Photography
- Topic: Compact Flash/Microdrive: What's the Difference?
- Replies: 9
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- Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:33 pm
- Forum: Photography
- Topic: New Camera - First Shots
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1269
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Small blue second brood?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3103
I checked out Stoke Camp today, along with some of its surroundings but I saw no small blue at all. There were good numbers of chalkhill blue, a few common blue, one or two brown argus plus the usual hoards of gatekeeper and meadow brown. I also saw a single small copper and a single grayling. Oddly...