Has anyone thought of a Butterfly calendar with photos from the UK Web Site? I asked Pete about it before he went away and suggested to put it on the forum for ideas. It would be nice I thought to have the winners of the monthly competitions included but no one to have two pages, so the runners up e...

Small Copper

Had a nice surprise to see this Wall Brown sunbathing on the wood chipping. Does any one know how exactly to use a close up lens that I bought for my camera, if you zoom it in to the butterfly the picture is totally blurred, is it a case of that the camera has to be close to the butterfly before you...

First Painted Lady of the summer, it was extremly windy the last couple of days and this butterfly must have been caught in the terrible weather.

Poor little butterfly whatever it is, I think it needs the kiss of life.

Got it deleted at last, its so easy when you know how. I think this gallery by tomorrow will be filled with photos. Good idea. Thanks. Shirley

Hello Pete, Well I've put some photos onto the gallery, but, I thought one of the comma's hadn't gone through because it was too big so I cropped it and put in through again and now I,ve got two photos and I've no idea how to delete any one of them :( , I have tried many times. Could you do it for m...

A programme as last about butterflies, I'll also be watching. Shirley

Having a change from the Kodak, I have waited for ages for this close up lens on my PanasonicDMC-FZ18. I didn't find it very easy, if you try and focus up to its limit of 3feet the photo is totally blurred. I'm going to ask Panasonic if they produce an instuction leaflet for the beginner. Anyway, I ...

Thank you very much for all that information. This morning my usually walk with the dog along the lane, it was boiling hot and the Gatekeepers were all along the grassy banks, it was too hot to see what sex they were, for once I left them to it, there' a bit like the Walton family as you say good st...

Here is my dog Rosy, her hobbies are going for walks, swimming in the sea, eating and sleeping. A typical dogs life.

I'm sure that someone will know, why are they more male Gatekeepers than female? For every 20 male that I have seen in the past week I have only seen one female. These female's must lay an awful lots of eggs for there to be so many males.

Welcome back, hope you will recover quickly. It's too hot to go outside to-day anyway, even the breeze is hot. Regards Shirley

To-day was very hot at Nefyn and I went onto the golf course at Nefyn, there were lots of butterflies around mostly the common ones, Meadow Browns, Ringlets, Small Skippers, two Small Coppers and one rather nice Common Blue which I took loads of photos, it really was a bobby dazzler. Later at home I...

This hay field is the perfect place for the Meadow Brown, they came last summer and they came again this summer. I allowed people to walk in it to see the butterflies and its amazing how many children and adults just don't know very much about butterflies. Its lovely to walk in but its a bit long no...

I am waiting for a Common Blue, but I will have to cut it soon and unfortunatly it'll turn into big bale hay. I have told the farmer who cuts to stay well away from the edges and to raise the cutter in the places where I will be standing, I have an idea that it'll be me in one of the bale with the g...

Hi Jack, I thought that your photo of the field is very interesting, I have a six acre hay field which I left so that the Meadow Browns could have a habitat which they like. I have noticed that this year the yellow flower Bird's Foot Trefoil is starting to spread at a great speed of knots, in your p...

Are you having nice weather Martin? here in Nefyn its low cloud and sweeping rain, It's so nice to see the garden Butterflies, I hope you have a nice day gardening.

A sunny afternoon up in North Wales brought out a Small Copper, didn't realise how small it looked, but very pretty.

July 15th, one small photo left for to-day, a Holly Blue, 2nd batch of the season.In Nefyn, North Wales.