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- Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:57 am
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Florida 2017
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1501
Re: Florida 2017
Looking forward to more of this... have you looked at the FB group "onlybutterflies"... US based but contributions from all over, and some crackers ( not the species) - they would love this thread!!
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kip
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9938
Re: Kip
The White-letter Hairstreak catty photo previously may well have matured into imagohood!! Seen today, high up, so hence only record shot, but I'm really pleased to see them at home, I just hope there are more lurking in the tree-tops. Another local site I visited today up here in northernmost North ...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kip
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9938
Re: Kip
Another morning with a fleeting visit to Sharpenhoe... many more coridon this time, but it was brewing rain so I didn't hang around long..
Don't see many Gatekeepers up my way, only Gamekeepers!
- Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: ID for a Pyrgus please
- Replies: 11
- Views: 481
Re: ID for a Pyrgus please
sorry in advance for being thick, but why not serratulae ?
- Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:00 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Dordogne June 2017
- Replies: 6
- Views: 796
Re: Dordogne June 2017
the good fortune was intended for you alone! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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- Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Padfield
- Replies: 4399
- Views: 1140907
Re: Padfield
Brilliant thore underside shot, love it! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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- Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:32 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Dordogne June 2017
- Replies: 6
- Views: 796
Re: Dordogne June 2017
What a magnificent creature that first one is
It's not 1st April is it?
It would be the best photoshop ever... that is just one gorgeous butterfly
congratulations!!
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It would be the best photoshop ever... that is just one gorgeous butterfly
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
- Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Kip
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9938
Re: Kip
Sharpenhoe looks wonderful at present. I was surprised to see a few fresh male coridon and delighted to see some wonderful female aglaja .....
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She wasn't in the best of focus, but boy, were they active!! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
- Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:13 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Sigh.... no, that was the correct pic.... back to the drawing board! ![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
- Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
A further little selection of mixed species.... Firstly oeme 170611 E. oeme. __9530.jpg next what I think is a nailed on female manii - now napi !! 170613 P. mannii. __9585.jpg Third, a nearly pure darwiniana 170617 C. darwiniana. __0070.jpg Lastly two further Coppers, tityrus then alciphron 170617 ...
- Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:40 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Hi Nick, yep, I remember that, long time ago now! Still need prizing away!! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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- Sat Jun 24, 2017 8:53 am
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
I really appreciate that chaps. It took a long time and I think they just got used to me in the end!
- Fri Jun 23, 2017 9:33 pm
- Forum: Foodplants and Gardening
- Topic: Wildflower patch
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9546
Re: Wildflower patch
It's been 2 years since I updated this thread, and things have moved on, well, a bit! I now have a second section in progress, with Yellow Rattle firmly established, and various plug-plantings from my own seedlings beginning to take hold... This is the original patch, now providing much of my seed, ...
- Fri Jun 23, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Return visits to the woods in vain for Poplar Admiral, gave me a chance to study the Woodland Brown with more time. Just as well, because obtaining a photo was not at all easy. 170604 L. achine __8137.jpg 170608 L. achine. __8934.jpg 170608 L. achine. Geneva__8960.jpg White Admirals were a different...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Blimey Guy, how did I not see that orientation thing.... thanks!...... checked the RAW images and, well, here are the corrected ones...
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Big self satisfied smile replaced by ![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 3:23 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Referring to Guy's diary. here are my best efforts from the day... a first ever view of the elegant Hungarian Glider, so intent on flying elegantly it virtually never stopped. I don't have Guy's zoom, which would have helped a lot.... but here's are those I managed..... 170617 N. rivularis. . __0218...
- Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:40 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Dark Dark Green Fritillary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 465
Re: Dark Dark Green Fritillary
ab. nigrans??.... http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/british-butterflies-moths/database/image.dsml?filename=500032X&includeInfraSubspecific=on&nametype=common&searchtype=taxon&sort=taxon-euro&taxonname=dark+green+fritillary&sex=%25&side=upper&provenance=native&...
- Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:56 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Colias... very worn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 466
Re: Colias... very worn
Thanks Roger, kind of glad no-one is quite certain... I'll leave it as an uncertain (alfacariensis then. It isn't going to make my top ten photos anyway - well, not quite! ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
- Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:09 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Colias... very worn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 466
Re: Colias... very worn
Oops
..... it was taken on at Samoens, altitude of the site was 1667m, should have said!!
I thought it strange, and agree it ought to be alfacariensis presumably the oddity is due to it's worn out-ness.
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
I thought it strange, and agree it ought to be alfacariensis presumably the oddity is due to it's worn out-ness.
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:25 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Kip on the move
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1542
Re: Kip on the move
Purple-edged Copper remains a spectacular butterfly when fresh, and especially when it sports purple edges, like this one I bumped into at Les Gets...
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oh, and here is his heart's desire, both were fresh as a daisy....
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