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Cheers for the ID Chris
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Have a goodun
Wurzel
Hi WurzelWurzel wrote:I then fell into bad ways and stopped for another 5 minutes on the way home on Tuesday. However I didn’t stop for too long and the lay-by was filled with vans, travellers visiting for the Solstice and Police. It was quite surreal making my way through the melee and down the path, from hustle and bustle to the relative peace of the natural world.
My time was almost up so I headed back to the car, the Happy Hardcore getting louder all the while, when I was accosted by a bald, heavily tattooed and studded Traveller. After the initial “what you taking photographs of?” he was really interested and it seems he’d seen a few Small Blue and Common Blues over the day as well as Large Skippers (at least that was the identification we made from his description). I made my apologies and explained that my wife wouldn’t be best pleased to find out that I was having a chinwag when I should really be at home and so chuckling he headed back to his van.
The copper on the other hand was a completely different kettle of fish. He watched me get in the car with my camera and then as I went to pull away he stopped me and made me wind the window down before giving me the third degree in a short and surly and quite rude fashion
Wurzel,Wurzel wrote: A few male Common Blues sparred with each other, tumbling down the hillside, all of which looked decidedly worn.
Wurzel
Doh .. beaten me to itChrisC wrote:silver ground carpet for the moth
Yes, I've found a website that's very useful for Grid references http://gridreferencefinder.com/Wurzel wrote:you've got the grid reference for the Bishops Site? Don't forget my Ringlet on Sunday, gotta add that to the tally
Oh, that puts so many pictures in my mindWurzel wrote:
....Luckily I managed to use some of the long grass to hide myself in order to make a close approach, a bit like a lumpy Cheetah....
LOL! I know what you mean. They're proper teases early in the season, and when they're ragged, faded and totally unphotogenic in late August they'll happily bask all day with wings open inviting you to take a shot.nfreem wrote:Oh, that puts so many pictures in my mindWurzel wrote:
....Luckily I managed to use some of the long grass to hide myself in order to make a close approach, a bit like a lumpy Cheetah....
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Those Meadow Browns do it on purpose, they wait until you are just in range to take your shot and off they go, I swear I can here faint laughter on the wind![]()
Cheers,
Neil F.