I trust the people on this list actually do know how difficult it really would be to collect a species to extinction. The one thing that has made it possible is the almost total destruction of some species' habitats. Indeed! Most of our feeble attempts to "save" a species rely on intensiv...

Canon, Nikon, Sony...eh, stuff cameras... I'll grab my net, and find the nearest marsh fritillaries or Large Blues, bring back the glory days of the collecting, so what if a few go species extinct, I'll have my fun. :lol: You will also have a large collection of extinct butterflies - surely that mu...

[quote="bugmadmark"....to use an OS map and calcualte the position using skills I should have learnt in boy scouts (I never went). Thanks Mark[/quote] I was always taught... Along the hall and up the stairs... For a six-fgure reference of 456789 along the bottom of the map...take the 2 gri...

Certainly, some of the images on the site appear to be ‘photoshopped’ almost out of existence; one recent example looked more like the product of a master jeweller’s workshop than anything that nature might have produced. I am in some confusion over this.... I'm not sure what Antonym is saying. It ...

Something that moves people in some way ... tho' judging by votes I'm certainly not there yet! Gruditch makes a good point - if you count them on transects, research them, get out in the field at the right time and photograph them too, you have enough ID shots. I start to look at some different angl...

Gary - Thanks for the useful critique - completely agree with you! (Brimstones were a bit tatty and it was my first real attempt at high-speed freeze-frame - still learning, as I guess we all are). Can only concur that the standards in this forum are now SO high it makes other non-specialist profess...

Denise wrote: I was quite embarrassed when not one person actually admitted that they voted for me
Denise

I voted for you too! Well done - from a member of the "Lanterne rouge" club (Ask Pete!)
Nick

Thanks Denise Maybe it is only the 2nd generation that DO nectar; thinking about it, not too many sources around for the 1st generation.... Must ask JackHarr - "he who knows all"! N (In fact the source of Info on nectaring was "Butterflies of Cambridgeshire" an excellent publicat...

Yes - earlier this year in my local cemetery (where holly & ivy abundant) there were many 1st generation HB's - the best for some time. Have seen fewer 2nd generation so far (they started to emerge a couple of weeks ago) and certainly no peak, yet. On another note - I have seen it said that they...

Rosy Rustic wrote:... I'll beat you with a bacon bagette, you cheeky bark.

NOW you're talking!!! Yes please!

Yeah - last year I noted a lot of Skippers and some of the Chalkhill Blues around me with the same - some with more than one. If I get round to it will look out the photos - but may be on my "old" computer which now refuses to boot and may be lost!

What a sad bunch of *******!

Seems to prove the Groucho Marx approach to clubs - wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member anyway!

Has to be to the lot of you - tree-hugging, vegetarian lady-boys!!

PS Am I banned yet!??

In Cambridge, the local Friends of Mill Road Cemetery (FoMRC -of which I am a member) has just entered into the dicussion and planning for long term management of a local mature Victorian cemetery along with Trustees and four different project officers representing the Council. The cemetery is a fan...

padfield wrote: Not so much watching sport as watching two incomparable geniuses of their art locked in a marathon battle. Guy

Thought you had drifted back into Gladiators, for a moment...! (Time for my cold shower )
N

jackharr wrote:Wife will cancel that second tin of sardines then. Jack

Surely Martin will cater for himself in the fish department, judging by his Lemon shark!?
Cancel that first tin too!

Sounds like good fun! I will put it in my diary and look forward to meeting my fellow butterfly enthusiasts - if that is the right word to describe us!
Nick
PS Re: Smokers - Looks like I'm outside with the other outcasts and social pariahs!

jackharr wrote:And Nick Ballard studying fox droppings (there happens to be a PE in the photo but that is incidental)

Jack

"H'mmmm - they're quite fresh! Wish that butterfly would get out of the way..."

More like Picadilly Circus than a quiet wood! Many groups and individuals out to see his majesty - and we were not disappointed! After a cloudy start up to 3 Purple Emperors at a time were down on the track taking-up minerals from - well, shrimp paste and a fox's calling card seemed the favourites. ...

Sorry to hear that Annie - but it is not unusual to break-out in a cold sweat thinking you have wasted your money when you first try something new with a few more controls than a simple point-and-click! ( I speak of my first attempts with my Nikon!!) It generally takes a few outings to start to lear...

Nilsia - Finland, 26th_July_2008 Changed to this blue I found - icarus?
Thanks to JKT for id of Amanda's Blue not Common Blue