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- Wed May 09, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Site Visit: Noar Hill - 9th May 2018 Juniper99.jpg I am well chuffed. Why? I have just broken my record for the number of Dukes I’ve seen in any year at Noar Hill. On my visit on 7th May 2018 (2 days ago) I found 25. Today I made a point of going to other parts of the reserve I did not visit on the ...
- Wed May 09, 2018 11:25 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Cheers Guys - its good of you to say you like my pics. I have seen other people's efforts on this site and they simply blow me away at times - some look very professional.
- Wed May 09, 2018 5:57 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: millerd
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Re: millerd
Dave
Fantastic shots. I particularly like the second shot of the Small Heath. I have yet to see one of these this year.
Fantastic shots. I particularly like the second shot of the Small Heath. I have yet to see one of these this year.
- Tue May 08, 2018 7:14 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
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Re: Trevor
Thanks, Trevor.
Would you believe it I actually had a short-break at Alfriston a few years ago and didn't know they were there!
Would you believe it I actually had a short-break at Alfriston a few years ago and didn't know they were there!
- Tue May 08, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
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Re: Trevor
Oh, Wow - Wall Browns! Great shots. Where are they located? Which part of the country? I have to admit I only have one pic of a Wall Brown and that was the only time I ever saw one. It was when I was more into Birds than Butterflies many years ago. I nabbed it at Keyhaven when I lived in the New For...
- Tue May 08, 2018 6:09 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Goldie M
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Re: Goldie M
Goldie
I particularly like your pic of the female O Tip with its wings very wide open.
I particularly like your pic of the female O Tip with its wings very wide open.
- Tue May 08, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Site Visit: Butser Hill/Rake Bottom – 8th May 2018 Opposite the Queen Elizabeth County Park near Petersfield is the open downland of Butser Hill. From the top there is a 360-degree view of the neighbouring countryside for many miles around. PICT1670.JPG Around the car park at the top of the hill in ...
- Tue May 08, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Wurzel: Great you could get to Noar Hill, my local reserve. Sorry I missed you.
David: I think the vole was staying in the shade. He crossed the wooded entrance path to the reserve.
Cheers,
David: I think the vole was staying in the shade. He crossed the wooded entrance path to the reserve.
Cheers,
- Mon May 07, 2018 3:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
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Re: Pauline
Love the Bearded Tit shots. Farlington Marsh is always a good location for birds and the saltwater plant life is interesting and sometimes unusual (in summer). I am green with envy over the Hawfinches at Chawton. I did not know they had arrived there this winter. You probably know I could walk to th...
- Mon May 07, 2018 1:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Site Visit: Noar Hill - 7th May 2018 PICT5830.JPG I was only here yesterday and I did the same transect over 1/3 of the reserve as yesterday and the number of Dukes has suddenly blossomed from 14 to 25 in just those few hours! I spoke with Tony who is the official recorder for the butterflies at Noa...
- Mon May 07, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
David & Bugboy: Thanks for the moth ID. Some of these moths vary so much within their species it is often difficult to say what it is. Wurzel: Chicken-of-the-woods apparently tastes like chicken and has the texture of cooked chicken although some people get nausea from eating it. I would always ...
- Sun May 06, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Neil Freeman
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Re: Neil Freeman
Fantastic shots of the Brimstone laying eggs. And the mating pair is great too. I do not have a shot of that yet. I am pleased that you are overturning the so-called rules of butterfly behaviours. I keep coming across books that give the accepted wisdom of all sorts of species only to observe in the...
- Sun May 06, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Goldie, David, Wurzel Thanks all for your comments - it is appreciated. Site Visit: Sleaford - 6th May 2018 Across the road from Broxhead Heath is Sleaford. It has grassland, a stream and woods, mature high ancient hedgerows alongside the path and an active sand and gravel extraction works! There is...
- Sun May 06, 2018 7:10 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Wurzel
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Re: Wurzel
I am amazed by your O Tip distance shot. If I tried to take a picture like that it would never focus properly on the butterfly. The auto-focus would decide for itself that a twig some way behind is what I really wanted to see. You have it bang on.
Cheers
Cheers
- Sat May 05, 2018 5:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Site Visit: St Catherine’s Hill & Water Meadows - 5th May 2018 Because of the combination of habitats here, this is the location where I have counted more flowering plant species on the same day than anywhere else in Britain and because of this, the butterfly community is varied too. The height ...
- Sat May 05, 2018 4:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
David M: Thanks. I was a bit breathless rushing around taking their pics. Its difficult to believe all those in the churchyard were within the space of about 30 minutes! I was very lucky the day I saw the Green Hairstreaks mating and I don't ever expect to witness it again. Wurzel: Aha! You have see...
- Fri May 04, 2018 9:32 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
I made an error.
I said the Green Hairstreaks do a wing-roll with their hindwings while the other species did it with their forewings. This is wrong. The other species wing-roll their hindwings.
I said the Green Hairstreaks do a wing-roll with their hindwings while the other species did it with their forewings. This is wrong. The other species wing-roll their hindwings.
- Fri May 04, 2018 9:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
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Re: ernie f
Matsukaze
Yes, they do appear to enjoy it don't they?
Yes, they do appear to enjoy it don't they?
- Fri May 04, 2018 5:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
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Re: Pauline
Aha, so despite your worries you were after all able to get back out of Rakes Bottom! ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
- Fri May 04, 2018 2:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: ernie f
- Replies: 1667
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Re: ernie f
Site Visit: Kingsley - 4th May 2018 Part I: Kingsley Common Two male Large Whites having a fight in flight. Two male Holly Blues arguing over the best position on a prime, mature, fruiting Holly. Two male and one female Orange Tip and one female Specked Wood. Speckled Wood at Kingsley - spring femal...