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- Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:36 am
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: Wall Brown At Noar Hill??
- Replies: 4
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Re: Wall Brown At Noar Hill??
Hi Paul Check out butterflies of Hampshire - worth getting a copy if you can, has lots of useful information about historical sites in hampshire. http://www.nhbs.com/the_butterflies_of_hampshire_tefno_106543.html Wall was widespread across the south downs, including Noar Hill, during the eighties, b...
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:43 pm
- Forum: Field Trips and Events
- Topic: Winter get together
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5383
Re: Winter get together
Count me in too please
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- Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
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Re: Pauline
Hi Pauline - hope the tortoise pulls through. I will still be looking hard for those migrants for the next six weeks and still lots of Clouded Yellows are showing everywhere i look, I have been touring the local lanes looking for Lucerne fields :D You know I will keep you posted when Pale Clouded Ye...
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:42 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2013
- Replies: 234
- Views: 14734
Re: August 2013
I did a tour of local sites today and first on the list was Chalton Down near Petersfield on the South Downs. It is a small fairly steep site and the entrance is a 'tunnel' through a blackthorn hedge. As I hopped over the stile the sight in front of me took my breath away - the whole down was just a...
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:40 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Which Clouded Yellow?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 756
Re: Which Clouded Yellow?
Great advice Guy - I have been creeping round ever Helice I have seen to try and get a backlit shot and they are quite mobile creatures so it has only been successful fifty percent of the time. Camera has already been switched to sports mode in anticipation! ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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- Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:34 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: jackz432r
- Replies: 786
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Re: jackz432r
Hi Paul Seems car parks are the place to be! Although I have to say it has crossed my mind that all sorts of inference could be made about wandering around car parks with a camera :shock: I too have been keeping an eye on a location in Portsmouth which is a car park by the Solent and at THE car park...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: Overseas
- Topic: Two-tailed Pasha lunch break
- Replies: 7
- Views: 525
Re: Two-tailed Pasha lunch break
What a fantastic butterfly and great pictures - I had common blue in my lunch hour though
I have just spent a couple of weeks in Turkey and TTP was on my wanted list I saw one only fleetingly - enough to whet my appetite for more - as are your pictures.
Kind Regards
Mark.
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I have just spent a couple of weeks in Turkey and TTP was on my wanted list I saw one only fleetingly - enough to whet my appetite for more - as are your pictures.
Kind Regards
Mark.
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
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Re: Pauline
May a little bit of a tease but as Pauline knows I believe we are in the middle of one of those ' migrant years'.' No 1947 perhaps, when 38 Bath Whites were captured in a single Cornwall field, but both swallowtail and monarch are being recorded weekly on the south coast at the moment so we are in t...
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
- Views: 620770
Re: Pauline
Swallowtail and Monarch noted just over the border in Sussex in the last couple of days and a nice warm southerly wind forecast ......... Keep your eyes peeled
Mark
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- Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:17 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Help With Clouded Yellow IDs Please
- Replies: 13
- Views: 847
Re: Help With Clouded Yellow IDs Please
Hi All Given the numbers of CY turning up at the moment - I visited four sites yesterday and they were present at every site - Pale/Bergers must surely turn up next. A potential was reported in June from Hampshire, by an experieced observer, but unfortunately no photo. In fact I thought that would b...
- Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:08 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
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Re: Pauline
Hi Pauline Great shot getting those Two blues together. The flower head measured just 14mm across so I would estimate the wingspan of the "small" blue to be between 12&14mm and I think we both agreed that it was at least half the size of the normal common blue if not smaller. As we com...
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
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Re: Pauline
I think Pale or Bergers clouded yellow are highly likely and Monarch have been seen at least five times this year only three miles from where Pauline and I saw the LTB.
Fingers crossed for scarce swallowtail bath white lol
Pauline you promised ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Fingers crossed for scarce swallowtail bath white lol
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- Sat Aug 17, 2013 6:43 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2013
- Replies: 234
- Views: 14734
Re: August 2013
Thanks guy - caught up in the excitement ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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- Sat Aug 17, 2013 6:43 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2013
- Replies: 234
- Views: 14734
Re: August 2013
Thanks guy - caught up in all the excitement
I was fortunate enough to see large numbers in Turkey recently but they were all very fresh.
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- Sat Aug 17, 2013 5:47 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2013
- Replies: 234
- Views: 14734
Re: August 2013
As noted in my previous posts I have been keeping an eye out for migrants at a few coastal sites with good numbers of clouded yellows including a number of very nice Helice. The weather was not too clever this morning so I took the dog fror a swim in the sea at Hayling Island and while walking back ...
- Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
- Views: 620770
Re: Pauline
Hi pauline
You were close Gosport is west of Portsmouth - the chalk pit at Paulsgrove is the north![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
You were close Gosport is west of Portsmouth - the chalk pit at Paulsgrove is the north
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- Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:35 pm
- Forum: Sightings
- Topic: August 2013
- Replies: 234
- Views: 14734
Re: August 2013
I see a Queen of Spain Fritillary has now been reported from Titchfield Haven (SU532026) in Hampshire now so its definately a good migrant year and getting better!
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- Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:58 am
- Forum: Personal Diaries
- Topic: Pauline
- Replies: 5208
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Re: Pauline
Hi Pauline
Out of interest Wall was very common all along Portsdown hill in the seventies barely raising a second glance except to see if was an abberation. There has been the odd report over the past couple of years and the habitat looks good so who knows?
Mark
Out of interest Wall was very common all along Portsdown hill in the seventies barely raising a second glance except to see if was an abberation. There has been the odd report over the past couple of years and the habitat looks good so who knows?
Mark
- Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:45 am
- Forum: Guestbook
- Topic: Greetings from East Sussex
- Replies: 1
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Re: Greetings from East Sussex
Welcome Andy and what a fantastic start!
Sounds like you have the perfect job and sympathetic boss - good combination
Mark
Sounds like you have the perfect job and sympathetic boss - good combination
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- Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are we due for a Clouded Yellow year?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1729
Re: Are we due for a Clouded Yellow year?
I am fortunate to live on the south coast and have been deliberately checking coastal sites to see what they turn up and I haven't been disappointed on the clouded yellow fron, seeing at every place I have looked, including another three today with yet another Helice :shock: I have been checking the...