Some really great photos of the Adonis Blues above^^^^^ Location was a place called Darland Banks in Gillingham. The date was the 8th of June 2013. I think this was my first ever visit to this area, i had read on the net that there were Small Blues here, so that was my target species...But as an add...

LTB(male) fly into her kitchen!!! I would express doubts that is a genuine immigrant. The larvae are well know to be pests on Mange Tout (peas)) on the Continent so maybe the lady had just bought some Mange Touts . Old records (I think it was in South's classic) refer to LT Blues being found indoor...

The 5th and 6th of March 2013 was my 1st sighting, both Comma and Red Admiral seen. You must have been one of the very few to see a Spring Red Admiral. I guess i must :wink: ...i take it not many people had early red admiral sightings for 2013 then? I would say that red admirals had a very bad year...

Great start to your personal diary Paul :D I've been doing something similar, a month by month look back through the year. I'm looking forward to seeing and reading more as you progress through the year. ATB B rex Thanks very much for that. Its been such a good year, i would have liked to have star...

I hope its not too late for me to do one of these :roll: 2013 was my best year yet(Ive only been observing/photographing butterflies for 3 years) so if i should make a mistake ie- on getting the wrong species/sex, then i wont be offended if someone puts me right :wink: I'll try to stck with the year...

Do we know just how far-ranging LTB sites have been? I'm aware sightings have been made in both Kent and Sussex, but have there been any more from other parts of southern England? Hi David, a few days ago i uploaded one of my LTB photographs on Flickr, then one of my contacts/flickr friends attache...

Susie wrote:Really glad you found your LTBs in the end, Paul I am really pleased for everyone who has managed to see them this year.

Thanks for that Susie, its got to be one of this years highlights for me.

I've just got back from the cement works near Shoreham and am very pleased to report that I saw a long tailed blue there this morning :D Huge thanks to everyone who has posted information about this species at this and other sites. The day is still fine so if you are reading this now there is still...

9th of October, 3.45pm, windy and not that warm at all, location was Kent. Not a butterfly, but i had great views of a Hummingbird Hawk Moth(I was at work, so no camera) I tried to take pics with my phone, but failed to focus :x The moth flew from one flower to the next, nectaring right in front of ...

Good stuff Paul (Testudo Man)! Hopefully everyone that travelled however many times to try & connect & see this species has now seen it & frazzled away the ozone layer with the many thousands of miles of driving we've done between us all!! Does Paul Whetton take the biscuit with over 15...

Well, after failing to connect the previous weekend, this Sunday certainly made up for it :D The weather conditions were perfect, i parked up at the Monument end, and made my way down to the site, having a scan to see if i could see anything of interest on route. As soon as I arrived, both Paul and ...

Definitely helice , and the first shot is definitely worthy of the species-specific albums! Cheers, - Pete Thanks very much for that Pete, funny you should say that about the species-specific album too :oops: :roll: :wink: All joking aside, Im really lucky that my first ever CL sighting, turned out...

For this shot, i used my Panasonic FZ45 bridge camera, with a raynox 250 macro lens attached. Camera set on macro, sub-setting "objects", no flash, handheld, auto focus, F5.6 1/640 ISO 80. Optical zoom was maxed out between 24X to 32X Apart from re-sizing down my photo to 600 X 450, this i...

Butterflysaurus rex wrote:Having managed to get a few photo's of the Helice type of CY this year, I would say yes and it's a lovely fresh one too, very nice photos especially the first one

Thanks for that, and good to see a few of these helice type about too.

Im still learning here :wink: After looking through this forum for a couple of days now, ive come across the word/term Helice which i confess of not hearing/knowing about until now! I know i had a fantastic time on the 11/8/13, when i captured emerging/mating shots of the clouded yellows. But the da...

That's one hell of a garden 'tick'. Im not sure if you are refering to my garden tick? or the post above mine(with the GHs) ? I'll answer anyway, and risk looking like an arrogant plum :oops: :lol: It is great to see these WLHs in the garden, but its not easy to sight them. I spent hours scanning t...

Congratulations to everyone who got lucky with sighting/photographying these LTBs recently(especially Lee and Family) who made the epic road trip from cornwall!! Im calling last Saturday..."Black Saturday" :lol: where a few of us turned up there, but failed to connect. Theres always a cert...

These pictures certainly do "do the talking"!!!

Fantastic experience for you, well done. The mating shot is superb.

I can see why the owner/location of where these beauties are, whants to keep it hush hush too.

Great thread this. When i can, Im always garden watching, you just never know what might turn up. I suppose the best butterfly seen in my garden are WLHs. I first spotted them several years ago, climbed on my shed roof, and took long distance pics of them leaning into the elm leaves. At that time, i...

What a great name and good to meet you on Saturday at Kingsdown Leas. I hope you get the chance to go and have another look for the LTBs in some better weather. I hope to be back in better weather myself. Cheers Paul, nice to meet both you and your wife too. I'd like to visit the site again, but th...