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Are there any brown hairstreak in the north Bedfordshire area? Otherwise in Hampshire or West Sussex now?

Seen on Saturday on the Isle of Wight. Two good condition butterflies not often seen together on the same flower.

Following a trip to Bulgaria in April to see birds, butterflies and flowers, I realised that my big Sigma 150-600 mm lens was too heavy now. So I sold it on Ebay for more than it had cost me, and I have been using my Lumix FZ200 compact camera instead. It has a 25-600 mm F2.8 lens, and although not ...

Perfect day for photographing chalk hill blues at Arreton Down Isle of Wight this morning. Overcast with mild drizzle. Many chalk hill blues about, hundreds possibly over a thousand on the whole hillside. I attach some photos.

Arreton Down on the Isle of Wight is a great place to see chalk hill blues. Photos below.
Also at Newtown there were some very fresh peacock butterflies, one of my favourites.

Lovely small copper ab. caeruleopunctata seen today inter alia,and a very fresh brown argus.

I decided to venture out in to local woodland this morning despite the high winds. I was rewarded with over 20 silver-washed fritillaries plus two valezinas. :D :D There were many other species including white admirals, red admirals, peacocks, second brood brimstone and a couple of common darter dra...

Some excellent choices here by all of us. I accept that it is subjective, and I really enjoy seeing any butterfly in pristine condition wherever it is.

White admirals and silver-washed fritillaries become often quite damaged flying between brambles and other plants. It was good today to find some of each to photograph which were relatively unscarred.

My favourite European butterfly has to be Cynthias fritillary. Gorgeous colours and only found in high mountains.

I like all butterflies, but I do have some favourite UK ones as follows:
1 Small tortoiseshell
2 Peacock
3 Painted lady
4 Glanville fritillary
5 Silver-washed fritillary
Any others willing to share their favourites?

I saw 19 species on my local patch today but it included an emperor dragonfly and a common blue damselfly! :( I have had some difficulty in the past distinguishing Essex and small skippers. However, I can highly recommend the book below which has helped me greatly. (There is a second edition now so ...

Silver-washed fritillary video here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lepreskil ... datetaken/

My wife and I have tried to make parts of our small front garden a wildflower meadow with some success. I attach a photograph from this morning with a lovely small skipper on bird's foot trefoil. Neighbouring front gardens have very little life on them, sadly. There were several skippers and gatekee...

I was watching a golden ringed dragonfly this afternoon when it was ambushed and taken off for dinner by an emperor dragonfly,! Quite spectacular!

A much better day's weather today. Over 35 red admirals at Kemphill Moor Copse near Ryde, plus a good number of silver-washed fritillaries, meadow browns, ringlets and gatekeepers. A few white admirals and one pristine peacock.

Not the best day for seeing butterflies today as it has been overcast with some rain showers. However, I did see a good number of meadow browns, ringlets, the odd marbled white, white admiral, gatekeeper and red admiral. Also, I saw several silver-washed fritillaries. Due to the lower temperature th...

Thanks for all comments and views.

Another photograph of the two mating pairs on hazel , with the valezina on the left of the rear pair.