End of season bonus

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:50 am

Hi,

Pat & I went down to Pennington Marshes on Thursday following reports of Wall on the Hants & IOW BC website. I was very happy to find these very fresh looking third brood Walls. Also bumped into Pauline Richards who was hunting the same butterflies. Saw around 10 altogether.

First Mrs Wall

And now Mr wall

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:14 pm

Hi Robin,

Nice Mr Wall, very colourful. I have never seen one yet, maybe next year. Won't be this year. Cool

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:24 pm

Hi,

Pat & I went down to Pennington Marshes on Thursday following reports of Wall on the Hants & IOW BC website. I was very happy to find these very fresh looking third brood Walls. Also bumped into Pauline Richards who was hunting the same butterflies. Saw around 10 altogether.

Nice shots of Mr & Mrs Wall, we've looked for these three times this year at Pennington and never found any.

Bryan H · Post by **Bryan H** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:13 pm

Well done, Robin!

What elusive, but very striking, butterflies these are!

Bryan

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:54 pm

Yeah - good "catch", especially at this time of year!

Cheers,

- Pete

David Tipping · Post by **David Tipping** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:02 pm

I sometimes feel quite envious of those of you who live down south, until I read a thread like this. The wall is a species I see every year at various sites in my local patch, one of which is only 10 minutes walk from home. So maybe Yorkshire ain't such a bad place to live after all!

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:16 pm

Like David, not rare about my parts... they sometimes frequent the garden. However, the difference is that there are still tattered second brood individuals to be seen here. A third brood?? that will be a nice Christmas present!!

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:55 pm

Yahooooooooooooo, 4th time lucky!!!
Finaly found, not one but 6 Walls, also saw my ol fav the Small Copper! and a Small Tortoiseshell.

Thankyou Robin!

Rogerdodge · Post by **Rogerdodge** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:31 pm

Well done Lisa - cracking butterfly isn't it?
Roger

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:33 pm

Yep it sure is, but it did give me the run around though.

Deer Stalker · Post by **Deer Stalker** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:18 pm

Yay Lisa.

Where was it?

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:30 pm

Hi D.S

Down at Pennington.

Brian Phipps · Post by **Brian Phipps** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:40 pm

Hi Lisa! Long time no see

Great picture something I hope to achieve next year with your help!

A lot of help needed reguarding my Butterfly ID`s wouldn`t go a miss either

Keep up the good work!

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:14 pm

Hey Brian, yep it's been a while

Welcome to the forum!!

I thought it would take a while trying to convince you, that butterflies is where it's at!! - but I'm sure your gonna learn to love them, although You might swear a bit more than usual!

You'll love it.

Jack Harrison · Post by **Jack Harrison** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:00 pm

Robin and Pat.

Those are impressive photos with excellent resolution and good depth of field.

What camera, settings, etc do you use?

Thanks.

Jack

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:24 am

Hi Jack,
My camera is a Canon 20D and I was using a Sigma 150mm f2.8 APO macro lens. I always use Aperture Priority. ISO 400.
The males exposure was 1/160 sec at f/16. Although I also took shots at f/11 and f/9.
The female was 1/400 sec at f/9.
Hope that helps,
Robin