Cheers Goldie
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Oh yes my wife likes to be very organised when it comes to booking the holiday
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- so flights already paid for and deposit down on the accommodation - fingers crossed Brexit doesn't put a spanner in the works
Cheers Ben
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I would love to say that the drip feed was intentional Ben but unfortunately it's down to needing a 25th, 26th and sometimes 27th hour in the day
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Glad it's helping to beat 'the lack of Butterfly blues'
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There might also be a previously unpublished Portugal report to follow
Cheers Philzoid
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I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one suffering when I'm out there in the field - it seems that there's only one Law when it comes to butterflying - the Law of Sod
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Hopefully GBG is a species I can catch up with another time
A Quiet Sunday Part 2 19-08-2018
After lunch we went for a drive and called in at St Marcead Gurcon seeing a Cattle Egret in amid the cattle on the way (well where else?). Unfortunately when we got there the Boulongerie had been closed for 10 minutes so we took a quick stroll to the church again and once again I found a Geranium Bronze and this one didn’t evade my lens – perhaps a small compensation for missing out on patisseries? The rest of the day was spent swimming and boating with some more swimming on top as the temperature steadily rose to 34.
After tea it started to feel a little cooler so back to the cutting I went. Again the Frits put on a good display but they were being very hard work still, even at gone 7pm. The Short-tailed Blues were a little better behaved and there seemed to be a couple hanging around.
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- Another one for Ernie...
Up at the field it was even harder going as the Frits had a whole field to lose me in! I also noted that there now seemed to be more Small Heaths flying amongst the larger Browns and they were up to their old tricks of flushing easily and then spooking every other butterfly within a 5 metre radius. Still I persevered here for a while but with little to show for it apart from a few Frits catching the evening glow nicely.
I called in briefly at the Cutting on the way back and a small blue caught my eye. I thought ar first that is was something totally different as the orange lunules were very large and had fused together to make a single band along the wing margins. I had visions of winter evenings spent pouring over Tolman and researching various websites to finally come to the conclusion that it was…Damn it there was the cell spot that made it a Common Blue
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, still it was a nice looking one. I then noodled around a little more at the cutting with the usual crowd. I’m seeing the same species time after time now but it’s still not getting boring. Only a day to go – I don’t want to go home!
Have a goodun
Wurzel