Wurzel - I'm glad I've given you something to do during the winter. :lol: Trevor - I was lucky to get the pic of the Short-eared Owl in flight. I knew they were at Farlington but never thought I'd get that lucky. I have seen them a few times in my life - particularly on a holiday in Orkney some year...

Just to round-off the Stinkhorn thing. As you are probably aware - it stinks. In fact you can know one is around by its smell of rotting flesh before you ever see it. It seems to start off when freshly fruiting with a smelly goo on top which attracts flies. Impudicus - Stinkhorn (3).JPG After a whil...

Goldie - thanks for the info regarding what you lot get up to in winter. I shall not go completely to sleep and hibernate until Spring then. I shall merely slumber and poke my head up above the parapet from time to time. Jenks - I believe it about the Victorians. I once read they covered their piano...

Trevor - A little while back I posted on your PD my enviousness about your Wall Butterfly pics as I have only ever seen one in my life and only got one pic.

Now you give us a pic of a mating pair!!!

You are so lucky.

Wurzel - Great encounter you had with all those SS Skips. I am happy to see a couple of them on any trip out and you got at least 26 while having a cuppa! I know what you mean about counting butterflies when there are so many. I find its a good idea to get them to form an orderly queue and then poin...

Goldie - I like to try to get underneath a butterfly to get its picture if I can and you've done the Comma proud in this respect. The second and third from last shots are brilliant.

Hoggers - One of those Coppers you pictured recently certainly looks as though its drinking from a berry. Is that the way you see it?

Love the Pip sequence as he runs toward you. I was fully expecting the last shot to be one of the sky as you fell over when he collided with you.

My penultimate post for 2018 Broxhead (Anvil End) - 29th Sep 2018 I was last at this part of the Broxhead Reserve on 2nd Sep. Today I saw 4 Small Coppers, 2 of which I can be confident I had not seen before because they were on sections of the walk I had seen none this year. This pushes up my total ...

Thanks, Wurzel. I'm glad to help. Now its Saturday and sunny I hope you are able to get out. There can't be many more butterflying opportunities this year now, sadly.

Noar Hill - 28th Sep 2018 My last visit here this year I think. I didn't expect much but it was warm and sunny. I saw a total of three butterflies and all of them in one of the centre pits on a sheltered bank. Two Small Heath and one Small Copper. The latter counts toward my annual total which is no...

Just a quick entry. I actually saw a Brimstone today. Nothing remarkable about that perhaps, except I looked back through my records and found that the last time I saw one was on Aug 2nd.

Goldie - lovely selection of butterflies you have had recently. I especially liked your garden Admirals. I hadn't seen and for ages until yesterday - two on a garden centre Buddleia.

Dave - I recently went to Binswood near me and found 5 Small Coppers but absolutely no flowers to nectar from. I wondered how they were sustaining themselves. Your pics of a Copper on a Blackberry opened my eyes.

Binswood - 27th Sep 2018 I had not visited this location since my spate of almost daily visits when the Puple Hairstreaks were flying. I remembered I saw a few Small Coppers on the path beside the meadow then, so on the off-chance I went again specifically for Small Coppers. I had never done this at...

Discussion on the wing-roll topic as of 27th September 2018 I am nearing at the end of my posts on UK butterflies for 2018 so it’s time for a recap and discussion about my wing-rolling findings. This summary is copied to both my own PD and the general topic section called: Wing-roll behaviour of som...

I am nearing the end of my planned posts to this forum this year so its time to recap my findings regarding wing-rolling.

I'll add it as an attachment here but also under the topic under "general".

Wurzel, David - Thanks for the congrats re the Copper Milestone and David you were right in your forecast. I found some more today!

Kingsley Common - 26th Sep 2018 My annual count of Small Coppers was getting dangerously close to that milestone 200. I wondered if I could reach it, so today I visited all those parts of Kingsley Common where I have seen them in past years but so far had not seen them at all this year. I found 9 in...

Well its nearing the end of the butterfly season so I thought I'd update my Hampshire butterfly spreadsheet.

Here it is. If you live close or are ever visiting this way I hope you find it useful.

Wurzel - I have never seen a second brood Dingy and we have a lot of locations round my way that Dingies like. I must go out and try and find some next year. I'll add it to my 2019 plan!