Bugboy: Thanks for creating the animations for me. They are great. In fact they are actually better than I remember because of course when its happening you are 1/2 thinking about how best to take the picture and only 1/2 seeing what is really there! Pete: Thanks for reminding me about videos. I tri...

Thursley Common - 15th Sep 2018 am P1020610.JPG Today I came across a Grayling here. Just the one, but with a bit of patience and perseverance and a lot of stamina running after it each time it flew I was able to get some shots of it close-up. P1020601.JPG P1020582.JPG I also saw a single Small Whit...

Thanks guys. Its nice to know my obsession is shared.

Shortheath - 13th Sep 2018 Bronze Age Barrow (2).jpg In my quest to increase my Small Copper count I am aware I must be very critical about double-counting. I am almost paranoid about it now because I think it might be a close-run thing beating my annual record count which as I said in at least two ...

Wurzel. To get the Brown Argus with both wings underside in shot I had to rest the camera at an angle on the ground and press the button without being able to properly see what I was taking. Lucky or what? David. That particular mushroom is edible. I am told all the pore-cap mushrooms are but I am c...

Coppers are great aren't they? I particularly like your ab. radiata as I haven't seen that one yet.

Just going back through your last page of posts, Goldie. Love the Brimstone on the Michelmas Daisy (I had to look up the spelling!).

Also you managed to get the Red Ad showing both wings' undersides at the same time. Love it.

I have seen this effect in many species to varying degrees. You may have to click on the image to see the blueness. Sometimes its only a speck or two. Brown Hairstreak - female (18).JPG Comma - collecting salts (1).JPG Dark Green Fritillary - female (3).JPG Dukes mating - male with wings open.JPG La...

Broxhead (Sandcliff-end) - 10th Sep 2018 PICT6149.JPG One Comma, one Speckled Wood and a Marsh Tit flock. No Small Coppers – and I covered quite a distance through habitat one might expect them to flourish in. It was in fact a long walk where nothing much happened. P1020490.JPG More fungi, though. S...

Thanks, everyone. I must admit I went there for the Coppers. I assumed Grayling would still be there but I did not expect to see any - so seeing five with at least two unfrayed albeit faded examples was a bonus. They did that thing of flying around and then landing on the ground directly behind me a...

Folly Hill - 9th Sep 2018 One last visit here this year. There were still 5 Grayling seen and heaps of Small Heath. Also Speckled Wood, Large White and even a faded Common Blue. Only two Small Coppers. ac Grayling.JPG There was a Treble Bar moth too. ab Treble Bar.JPG Non-butterfly Snapshot of the d...

Thanks, guys. I always like shots of butterflies with blue sky behind and this one was very obliging.

In fact he hung around a bit longer and it turned into a bit of a photo-shoot.

Here is another from the same shoot...

Loving your holiday pics, Wurzel.

I went there once but it was before I got into butterflies. Fantastic shots of the ones you found.

Let me add my comment of amazement re the 77 Painted Ladies. You just never know what you are going to find do you?

Postby Goldie M » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:54 am I thought of you the other day when I saw the Red Admiral in my garden, I watched him rolling his/her wings, lots of Bee's and flies were round him so he was doing this constantly and it made me wonder about the Wing Rolling and if this was another reason ...

Sleaford & Broxhead - 8th Sep 2018 Recently on two separate days I counted the Small Coppers at the remnant of heath at Sleaford and it came to 16 each time. On the strength of this I assumed the population had arrived at its peak. I have lost count how many occasions this year I have come to th...

Thanks, Goldie. I am into Turkey-trotting at the moment. It's almost "up-there" with my obsession with Wing-rolling. Interesting observation you made with your Red Admiral. I have not seen this and of course its not in the same family as the other Wing-rollers. I shall add your comment abo...

I managed to get an 8 burst shoot of the Brown Argus doing a wing roll with wings open and then with wings closed. Open... Brown Argus wing-roll open (1).JPG Brown Argus wing-roll open (2).JPG Brown Argus wing-roll open (3).JPG Brown Argus wing-roll open (4).JPG Brown Argus wing-roll open (5).JPG Br...

Broxhead - 7th Sep 2018 Just as I thought Broxhead might be at its max for Small Coppers – I find it isn’t really. Today I covered one part of the reserve and found 55 Small Coppers of which three I can be claim to be ones I have definitely not yet counted this year yet. Yesterday I was hinting that...

Thanks Wurzel. I was lucky the sparring coppers had a protracted fight right above the more or less blank canvas of the sandy path so they could be seen well. I have seen Woodcock roding at Frensham Common in Surrey. It was exciting because they flew only a few feet right above my head doing that fu...