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- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:17 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
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Re: Benjamin
Thanks Goldie - glad you’re finding the updates of interest. It was indeed a shock - I hadn’t seen one until then - an unusual first encounter! I’ll give you T-bone Frank @20-1 Wurzel. I pay out at pupation. If I lose him at L5 it’s money back, any time before then we assume predation and you lose y...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:04 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: millerd
- Replies: 5885
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Re: millerd
Great to see you at Whitehawk Dave - perhaps it was your last visit as the season was definitely coming to a close. It’s becoming a great end of season meet up - if we could just squeeze a pub in somewhere it’d be perfect. Maybe this year.....
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Wurzel
- Replies: 5881
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Re: Wurzel
Lovely writing as usual Wurzel.
If you’re anything like me (probably you’re a much better son!) then it was prob a good job the butterflies were underwhelming - it’s impossible to be good company when your attention is pulled away with every flash of an unidentified lep!
If you’re anything like me (probably you’re a much better son!) then it was prob a good job the butterflies were underwhelming - it’s impossible to be good company when your attention is pulled away with every flash of an unidentified lep!
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Bugboys mission
- Replies: 4238
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Re: Bugboys mission
Great to see what you found around the waterworks Paul - it used to be my final destination on my daily pram walk - if I timed it right the baby would be just nodding off by the time I arrived at my favourite waterworks bench - 30 mins (an hour on a brilliant day) of peaceful heaven would follow! Th...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
- Replies: 1994
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Re: David M
Well I’ll go for the Small Heath - so easy to overlook but look at that colouring - lovely photo.
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:44 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Re: Benjamin
Just so it’s not all hibernating caterpillars, I’ll mix in other interesting bits here and there. Spending so long amongst the foliage I do tend to encounter other woodland wildlife that I would normally miss altogether. One such encounter was with a delightful dormouse when out searching for autumn...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Re: Benjamin
Thanks for your very encouraging comments Neil, Trevor and David. A quick report on losses for December. A good start with only 2 (of the named 20) missing. There is always the possibility that they relocated, and I have overlooked them, but I search thoroughly enough for this to go down as a bit of...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: David M
- Replies: 1994
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Re: David M
Enjoying the retrospective David, and with the spring focus yours is particularly appetite-whetting! Fingers crossed for the coming months, both at home and further afield.
Cheers,
Ben
Cheers,
Ben
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:20 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Neil Hulme
- Replies: 4493
- Views: 558820
Re: Neil Hulme
Superb reporting as always Neil. I should have come and seen that Clubtail but I think I was glued to an L5 caterpillar at the time - hoping to watch it journey off to pupate. Really interesting summaries of the iris season from Matthew and yourself. Hard to see 2021 being better than 2020 (in terms...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:48 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Trevor
- Replies: 5125
- Views: 975264
Re: Trevor
Some superb shots this year Trevor, on your PD and on Facebook. I missed many species for one reason or another so really good to see the efforts of others. No doubt cross paths for some spring species soon!
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:44 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Daily Telegraph Butterflies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 609
Re: Daily Telegraph Butterflies
They got the Black-veined White right - 1 out of 4 ain’t bad.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Re: Benjamin
Thanks for that Pete and David - The boy Deontay will be my second case study. One of the early finds back in November 2019 and representing something of a breakthrough in terms of understanding this particular iris breeding ground. When I first began searching for immature stages I sought out suita...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Neil Hulme
- Replies: 4493
- Views: 558820
Re: Neil Hulme
And that was PBF ‘part 1’! Whatever next - a couple of hundred spelling out ‘long live Hulme’ amongst the bugle perhaps?
Seriously though - what a spectacle and congratulations to all involved.
Seriously though - what a spectacle and congratulations to all involved.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:06 am
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: European Butterflies Magazine
- Replies: 143
- Views: 440747
Re: European Butterflies Magazine
I’m glad this is doing well Jason - always a good read.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:13 am
- Forum: Purple Emperor
- Topic: Purple Emperor - Favourite Photo of 2020
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1572
Re: Purple Emperor - Favourite Photo of 2020
Great shots of a stunningly fresh individual on the 26th Dave, and interesting to see the wear on the same butterfly in Paul’s photo a few days later (I presume). I think we were all taking turns with the same few in Chiddingfold around that time - but I certainly didn’t manage anything as good as t...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:58 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Re: Benjamin
Please let me know if the photos don’t display properly BTW - I’m using some hastily downloaded compression app and I’m not convinced I’m choosing the correct options! Really need to get a laptop. Thanks!
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:39 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Re: Benjamin
Thanks for the warm welcome folks - really glad to know that a diary so limited in scope will still be of interest to some. Before I report on losses (always a somewhat depressing task) I’ll take the latest lockdown as an opportunity for a case study or two. As I’ve already linked to a video of her ...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Benjamin
- Replies: 316
- Views: 280266
Benjamin
Time to dive in and start a diary. I’ll kick it off with my favourite butterfly related quote from one of my favourite authors (I don’t know many TBH - I’m not well read). “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the ...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:14 am
- Forum: Test
- Topic: Test phone pic
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2798
Test phone pic
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- Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:30 am
- Forum: Books, Articles, Videos, TV
- Topic: Butterflies of The Iberian Peninsula
- Replies: 8
- Views: 731
Re: Butterflies of The Iberian Peninsula
Superb - thanks David