Wheather is continuously rainy here but I just have seen (and recorded) a gliding Black Stork from my window. But the record isn't good-class so I´m hasitating if to post it to youtube.

Well, here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKihu3IXO_g[/video]

Today I saw a Wood White or (most probably) Réal's Wood White and a Swallowtail in my garden. Outdoor I snapped: Green-veined White Wood White or (most probably) Réal's Wood White - I saw lots of Dingy Skipper Short-tailed Blue (I saw about six ones), two in the road ditch - here is photo of one of ...

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When I moved in Traplice my wife was surprised by Cocuckoo callings: It had sounded not only "cuckoo" but in May also "Cocouckcoukoo" etc. In May cuckoo is probably very upset and calls multiple .

Yesterday was a sunny and warm day and I succeed in snapping: - Dingy Skipper (I saw lots of) - Green-veined White - Map Butterfly - Orange tip female (I saw more males but they were too fitgety :x ). - Wood White or Réal's Wood White (I don't know if they are of the same species before matting didn...

Today more Peacocks, Map Butterflies and Wood Whites oe Réal's Wood Whites. And the first Specled Wood - Pararge aegeria - in my garden. While I took its photos it was attacked by a Sand Lizard. I saved the butterfly but one was so damaged that it was probably unable of flying and fell wictim to pre...

Today one Map Butterfly - Araschnia levana sitting on the draft wall by the entry to our house.

Today one Wood/Réal's Wood White and some Peacocks in my garden and one Orange Tip in the town park in Uherské Hradiště.

Today only: - four Map Butterflies - Araschnia levana on the park of primary school Traplice (without photos :( ) - one Geometrid : Common Heath - Ematurga atomaria - in the school park - one Wood White or Réal's Wood White in my garden (only bad photo :( ) - first Small Whites - one of them in my g...

Yesterday was sunny but relative cold and only few hardiest butterflies were flying. I have a trip to the top end of Jankovice and saw butterflies: - Orange tip male (but not succeed in snapping) - Peacocks - many Brimstones - 3 x Camberwell Beauty - many Commas - some larvae of Hyphoraia aulica - a...

Yesterday I have taken to the photos a caterpillar and I have determinated it as Scarlet Tiger - Callimorpha dominula . I want to ask if it is correct determination and if so then I want to offer it for the album Moths/Scarlet Tiger. The photos are here: photo1 , photo2 , photo3 , photo4 and here is...

I have inserted some plum twigs. Unluckily I haven't succeeded in substitution of broken cremaster (attemted by loop made from thin grass stalk but pupa 2x fault) so I left it lay on the bottom. It has twigs for climbing and I thing enough place for expanding of wings.

Thanks Pete and Guy for identification and Paul for compliment. I just have look to the photo of O. podalirius pupa and it seems so. I have inserted the pupa to the pot with bottom strewed by last year grass and puteed it do the basement window (I was afraid that puting to the room might cause prema...

But bee careful, Lee, and give them only dry (hay or granules, dry bread, oats) an water for several day and then carefuly add stinging nettles.

After a week of almost continuous rain today the sun had appeared and I saw a butterfly in our garden: Map Butterfly - Araschnia levana . But I haven't succeed in snapping one. I have count the Roman Snails in our garden (I have found 47 of them), snapped a female of Sand lizard , a Field Cricket an...

I haven´t conviced my wife yet to leave last year grass along the fence of our garden and during clearing she found the pupa below:

http://traplican.rajce.idnes.cz/Motyli_2010-04-16/

Can you identify from these photos what it can be?

Sympathy! Feed your rabbits only by dry fodder and from soiling crop only by fresh stinging nettle. Other soiling crop causes usually diarroea but not so stinning netles - they are admirable fodder and dieteticly helthy! Stinging can be reduced by crease them in a piece of linen or let them wilt: [v...

Gorgeous snaps, Guy! Really beautiful!

I just have obtained an e-mail that I had inadvertently discovered new botanical locality. On March 24th I have taken white violets to the photos for my personal diary as the nectar sources for the butterflies on one of my first field trips. Then I tried to determine them and came to decision that i...

I wont only add a link to Kingcombe Center activity in the Ždánice, Czech Republic (it is close to me cca 31 km as the crow flies or 50 km by car).

Today two Map Butterflies - Araschnia levana L. appeared in my garden. One of them taken to the photos: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=2003&image_id=6833&mode=thumbnail http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/image.php?album_id=2003&image_id=6834&...