Sat. 27th July, continued.
............but earlier that afternoon i did find a female Wood white ovipositing on Bird`s`foot Trefoil down in a ditch. I did try to get a picture of the egg, but found it very near impossible and gave up, telling myself i will give it another go another day. Today was that day. Arriving mid afternoon i set up my camera on it`s tripod and positioned both down in the ditch on one side and aimed the lens down towards the egg on the other side, but i found that the camera was just to high, i needed to be lying down with the camera just a few inches [or twice as many cm] off the bottom of the ditch, but i could`nt lie down facing the ovum. So i had to lie down along the ditch with the egg to my right, i put my racksack and camera bag down side-by-side across the ditch, placed my left arm with the camera in my left hand on the two bags at a right angle around the side of my head, then tried looking through the veiwfinder whilst trying to focus with my right hand down the other side of my head at a right angle, for the first time in my life i had become a contortionist, but i wanted the photo. After getting the egg in focus, or what i thought was in focus, i let go with my right hand hoping that my left hand would hold the camera steady and in position, then with my right hand i started, or at least with my index finger, pushing down on the shutter over and over again and, hoping i had got it right, even though perspiration was by now dripping down my forehead and into my left eye and, stinging like mad. So after fortyfive minutes of torture and, it being so hot, i decided i had had enough, and hoped that i had the photo i was after. [the veiwing screen on the back of my camera is really poor and, i can never really know how well i`ve done, or not, until i get home] So then it was a quick walk around some of the wood to see what i could find that was actually not flying in all this heat..........
27.7.2013 2nd brood Wood White, female 173.jpg
2nd brood female Wood White photographed just to the right of the egg the same day it was laid.
1.8.2013 Wood White ovum after 5 days 068.jpg
This is the Wood White`s ovum that i photographed five days after it was laid, now having turned yellow in colour, [was white when first laid] and should hatch in a further five days.