What do butterfly enthusiasts do during the winter months?

[Susie]

The heading says it all - what do you do to get you through til spring?

[eccles]

I'll snap anything that makes a nice picture, but mainly local woodland birds. When the leaves have fallen they're more easily visible.

[Dave McCormick]

I got for landscape shots, always good ones out there in winter months, and I look about for the few moths that are around too. I'd snap local birds if my lens was longer, but for me there is always something interesting about in every season to photograph. I like shooting the mountains in distance with snow on top in winter and when there is a mist over the large lake here and anything else good in my travels about.

[twitcher]

Mainly wildlife pics,I took these 2 last year.
Regards Shaun

[Annie]

Gramophones and pre-war cars. That reminds me, must get my anorak dry-cleaned

This is the same as my car, although mine's green;



bit of birding, too - though mostly done through the telescope at home

[KeynvorLogosenn]

Me?
Work, Work and more Work....

Mouse

[Padfield]

This:

http://www.guypadfield.com/movies/ski26thjanuary.wmv

Guy

[Gruditch]

I've already got plans for every weekend up on till mid December, mostly Deer for the next few weeks then some landscape stuff, mostly coastal. Climbing a mountain on Christmas day this year, so we will start to do a bit of extra walking. plus we fly our birds more in the winter months, and I may even turn the TV on in February, as the Six Nations Rugger is on, so loads to do. got this one at the weekend.


Gruditch

[eccles]

Nice one, Gary. I've heard that red deer stags can be very belligerent during the rut. Have you ever had to run for it?

[Gruditch]

I've had three encounters that were too close for comfort. One was when a big stag decided he was coming my way so I better move, only I was looking through the view finder wondering where the hell he had gone. When I gave up looking for him, I looked up from the camera to find him 10ft in front of me, heading my way.
On another occasion, we were trying in complete darkness to get to our chosen site before dawn, and ended up unwittingly passing though the middle of a group of hinds, the stag was none too happy. Then last year while edging quietly through some woods, trying not to be seen by a stag and some hinds we walked straight into another very bad tempered one, fair play to Lisa, she had her camcorder on and kept on filming.

Below is the one that decided he was coming my way.

Gruditch

[eccles]

Bit of camera shake there?

[Neil Hulme]

Hi all,
I still stick with butterflies! If I'm not writing up survey results, newsletter articles or habitat management reports, I'll be reading about them, sorting out my piccies, drawing or painting them. I tend to spend quite a lot of time outdoors bashing scrub and generally looking after several local butterfly sites, and if I'm not doing that I'm generally dreaming about them. In fact I'm a butterfly bore! Oh yes, I do get drunk quite a lot! Following Gary's comments, I reckon I could be tempted by a bit of falconry. At my local sheep fair a few weeks back they were flying a Snowy Owl and this beauty. Now that looks fun!
Neil

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[Markulous]

Depending on weather and what's happening:

[m_galathea]

Caving!

Some of you will be familiar with Priddy Mineries, but this is what it's like underneath:

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St. Cuthbert's Swallet, Somerset.

[Susie]

Goodness me! What a wonderful array of interests you lot have.

[Dave McCormick]

Cool pics, yeah I love getting out when I can in thse months, but I'll probably have a lot of coursework to do like usual, so I'll have to get that done when I get it and find the time to actually get out at all. But I am doing ok with it at moment.

[KeynvorLogosenn]

Coursework Dave?
Tell me about it... I am swimming in all the paper work on my desk at the moment!
The good thing about it is, once it's done. It's done. It's just the doing part that seems to be the problem
Good luck with it!
Mouse

[Piers]

Lots of shooting followed (hopefully) by lots of cooking and eating. I only shoot to eat by the way, preferring to rough-shoot a brace of partridge that have lived an enjoyable life in the wild, than buy and eat some poor chicken with rubber bones that has never seen the light of day in it's life.

My motto - if you don't think you could stomach to kill it yourself - you shouldn't be eating it.

Nothing gets on my nerves more than people who tell me that I am 'cruel' to shoot, only to go home and tuck into cheap sausages made from intensively reared pork!!

When it's too cold and rainy I'll be in a big shed tinkering with a traction engine.

Felix.

[eccles]

Even vegans have to kill a lettuce.

[Annie]

When it's too cold and rainy I'll be in a big shed tinkering with a traction engine

Ooh, likey likey. My father recently dug out all his old cine film of when he and his friends used to tear(!) around the countryside on traction engines in the 70's, I had no idea that anything that moves so slowly could strike so much fear into the general public!