Thanks for that Martin !! it does look more like a Common Blue....

Charles

this is from my trip to corfu in august...

could anyone confirm that this is a grass jewel ?

thanks

charles

this has been my first complete year as a butterfly groupie... i have really enjoyed sharing pics & banter with you all here !! the highlights of the year were finding a colony of white letter hairstreaks and my safari to corfu where i found the pashas ( although for the first few days i thought...

it is working fine...maybe you could come & wave to us

charles

here is a very shaky picture of a sparrowhawk noshing on a pigeon in our garden... the shaking was mainly due to excitement !!

charles

there is a silver lining to the crayfish invasion... the perch are getting enormous on this vast supply of protein snacks. no doubt the perch record will soon be broken.

charles

did it look at all like this ?



charles

well done to the winners !!

thanks very much to Pete & Dave for your kind remarks about my entry

Charles

red admirals seem to prefer my white outfits ...they have perched on my shirt for more than a minute in some cases i think perhaps the detergent has some ultraviolet "whiter than white" photo activity... http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z160/captaincatkin/summer2006england020.jpg http://...

thanks for that excellent Pasha video link rogerdodge !! very entertaining...
the two guys did their best to help the befuddled insect

charles

i do not have any special optical equipment... i find that my camera which has a x12 optical zoom & additional x5 digital zoom enables me to watch butterflies high up in trees ( the butterflies that is, not me )

charles

here is a skipper vibrating its wings...

charles

what a funny expression on the squirrel's face !!

charles

padfield wrote:I'm actually a great fan of grey squirrels.

Guy

i am a big fan of ..... black squirrels !!



they are quite common in this part of Cambridgeshire ...this youngster was in our garden

Charles

but what if it was a grey squirrel ?

this comma was the only butterfly i saw in the whole of an afternoon's hunting yesterday ( 30th September )


charles

I have posted the video of pashas here:

http://www.blip.tv/file/354876/

the sound is slightly out of sync


hope you like !!

charles

Thanks Martin & Pete... i am happy to settle for a skipper !!

charles

Thanks for your kind remarks Denise, Bryan & Martin !! I did indeed have a super holiday in kavos despite not going to any foam parties I managed to cover quite a lot of ground on foot & local bus ( very efficient & reasonably priced ). Fortunately Corfu has been spared the fires which h...

i have put a selection of the corfu pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/445735@N24/pool/

enjoy !!