Wurzel: Fantastic images Zonda! How do you get the photos larger when you upload them? Thanks for the praise. I use an intermediate web picture host Picasa (free) where i dump all of my pics. Picasa lets you choose from four different sizes when you upload to a site. I don't use the largest option, ...

So maybe they've been right in front of your eyes all these years, Zonda! :wink: Almost certainly have Guy. I have always looked at the natural world around me, and i have always been astounded by it's beauty. From fungi, and to birds, to butterflies as well. I have always been interested enough to...

This is not a particularly great pic of a Green Hairstreak, but it does illustrate how this butterfly has evolved to resemble a new bramble leaf. Note the shine of a new leaf, bright green colouration, thorny brown edge, complete with thorn-like spikes. I think that this butterfly can alter the posi...

An absolutely delightful butterfly spectacle on the lower slopes of Giant's hill, Cerne Abbas this morning. Too 'gobsmacked' to take pics, i lowered the Zonda flab into a suitable depression on the hillside, and just looked. Green Hairstreaks in 'dogfights' with pristine Small Coppers. Holly Blues a...

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I saw a couple today, very blue, i thought they looked like 'commons'.

I think i blew the whites in my excitement.

Frits.

Well i shall know where to go this year then Pete.

Today, i took to the hills again. I gave the lower slopes of the Cerne Giant, about an hour and a half. They proved to be butterfly rich with: Speckled Wood Orange-tip Holly Blue Small Copper Grizzled Skipper (thanks Felix, another lifer.) Also there were hundreds of what i presume were Marsh Frit c...

Great pics Trev. These are my next goal for 2011. I know little about them, except that they like bare soil.

Wurzel: Headed up to Martin Down to make the most of the nice weather and also to try and get a few photos of a Green Hairstreak - mainly to try and wind up Zonda :wink: History now mate, i have them ticked. Might whip up to Martin Down for a shot of those DSs tho. That's my next goal, and another l...

Michael:

Sorry Zonda - I've knocked your lovely Green Hairstreak shots off to the previous page!
Michael

No sweat,,, onwards and upwards.

Guy, i love your habitat shots. That Brimstone on the Dandelion pic is great.

Another GH from Sunday.

Lee:

1 Green Hairstreak
1 Dingy Skipper
4 Grizzled Skipper
1 Peacock
2 Speckled Wood
4 male Orange Tip
4 male Brimstone, 3 female
2 Small or Green Veined White

That's a great day Lee, after my GH success, i'm now free to think about Grizzlies. What a twitcher i am.

Some years ago, i was racing down a hill on me bike, when i hit a swarm of St Mark's Flies. I managed to swallow one, and ever since i've felt sorry for Hirundines.

An Orange-tip female from Kingcombe yesterday.

Nice ones Nick, and here's my first lifer of the season. Caught flitting about the Dorset heathland this morning. Felix your pointers worked, they were on the heath. Am i chuffed? Just a bit. :D :D :D https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TasbgBwyHiI/AAAAAAAAJe0/T-Jy5OIdECA/s640/Green%20Hai...

I spent this morning at Kingcombe Meadows with the OT girls: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/Tanxc_hVRzI/AAAAAAAAJds/yL-w5tiHjxQ/s640/Orange-tip%20%28fem%29%20002.jpg Some were very pretty. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TanxqIwVEWI/AAAAAAAAJd4/b7hOcj2FSHE/s640/Orange-...

I've been looking for a season and a half Nicola. I'm not convinced they even exist. I think that all the photos of sightings are Green veined Whites, altered in Photoshop. Every time i see a GH sighting from anywhere, i fume with frustration. Please don't take me too seriously. Frank in Dorset.