Thanks everyone. This sequence of shots of a male investigating a bramble flower was only one. There was another individual further along the hedge doing much the same thing and that was added to the two occasions I have seen them do that recently - but never before. I wonder if the long dry spring ...

3rd July 2020 - A day in the life of a Binswood Purple Hairstreak. Breakfast time. There seems to be something tasty under this petal. Something tasty under this petal.JPG Brunch. And there is definitely something tasty on the top of this petal. Something tasty on the top of this petal.JPG Lunch. So...

Wurzel - I love trying to get those "Stained glass" backlit shots and the Frits are one of the best. But the Commas also can put on a show - like this one today... P1130790.JPG David - I know what you mean but there is still a lot of the summer to go and the dreaded virus seems to have dro...

That's a neat trick, David. I must remember to tickle Purple Emperors myself. Could be the start of a whole new hobby.

Dodging the showers today but still pretty good. My first Peacock since the lockdown. My second and third Summertime Holly Blue (males) and my first Gatekeeper of the year. Plus the Purple Hairstreaks, SW Frits, White and Red Admiral, L Skip, Meadow Brown and Ringlet, S & L & M White and Com...

Thanks to you all. It's nice to get out again, even if it is cloudy a lot at the moment. Re PStreaks on Bramble. Thanks to Bugboy for sharing his pictures. That confirms they do. And as if by magic, I visited Binswood again today and what do you know? Yes. Another PStreak feeding on a bramble flower...

Departed from Alton in full sunshine really early this morning. Arrived 15 minutes later at Odiham Common under a 100% cloud cover. Blast! Nevertheless had a trouser encounter with a Marbled White! Trousered by a Marbled White.JPG Which I then lifted off with my finger for closer scrutiny. Finger sh...

David: Re that "nectaring" Purple Hairstreak picture. I have now reviewed all my 140 photos of Pstreaks I have taken over the years and not a single one shows any individual nectaring from ANY flower, not even perching on one. I looked in the internet and only two pictures show a Pstreak p...

Neil Yep, I am fit and well. Well, not fit exactly... but well. Wurzel Although there are only two species represented in that dung shot I do love it when you can get three species in a single photo, something I might start up is a triple-shot collection if I can (but maybe without the dung). David ...

Where shall we three meet again…? On a pile of poo at half past ten. P1130446.JPG My apologies to The Bard. That from Alice Holt yesterday - as was this... P1130440.JPG The Purple Hairstreak season has started around here. Yesterday I found three Purple Hairstreaks at Alice Holt Forest, none of whic...

Wurzel: The White Ads are doing fine at Alice Holt - I expect the number will build up quite soon now. I am unfamiliar with the term UFW - guess Unidentified Flying wotsit? David M: Thanks for the welcome back. It's good to be back, although the frequency of my entries may not be quite as much as pr...

Tuesday June 23rd Spring butterflies passed me by this year. Coronavirus has made me re-think so many things as I am sure it has many people – so I took the government advice and stayed at home. Until June that is… It was safe enough in Hampshire to go local and my annual Silver Studded Blue survey ...

Finally we have details of what essential and non-essential travel is.

One thing that IS allowed...

Driving to countryside and walking (where far more time is spent walking than driving)

For those interested, around mid-April onwards a comet will approach us and may be visible with the naked eye for a few weeks.

Details at...

http://www.cometwatch.co.uk/comet-atlas ... rightness/

Thanks for that info

I went on at 10.15am. Red Pandas!!!! One of my favourite animals.

Great Butterfly pics as usual but I really liked the pic you got a little while back that I just found which you took looking up at a kestrel which was perched looking down.

David - great counts of Butterflies on that walk of yours. Also a Holly Blue! I must keep check for them. Not seen one in our garden as yet but they usually visit us at some point in Spring.

Neil, thanks for sharing your moth pics. I have for some years now been considering getting a moth trap and never did due to cost. But your pics are making me think about it again more seriously. If I cannot get my usual Butterfly fixes by venturing out - I can perhaps better turn my attention to en...

Great pic of the courting Peacocks. never seen that behaviour before. I also had a flight once with Alitalia. Never again. It's the only aircraft I have ever been on which during initial ascent repeatedly lurched upward as though climbing a staircase. It was like being in a car with a learner driver...

Very funny "Italian Job" pic. It cheered my up a lot I can tell you.

Also, amazing underside shot of a Peacock you took recently - showing the upper markings backlit through the wings.