Winter Fix

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:51 am

OK
Heading into winter what does everybody do during the dark winter months to satiate their butterfly addiction.
I'm going to contact my local butterfly conservation group and volunteer to do some work on our local sites like coppicing etc.
What are the rest of you going to do until the Spring and butterflies arrive?

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:28 am

...this seems like a similar thread that has been running, Lance.

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... php?t=1681

I should finish building my hide this weekend out of plastic tubing and (thanks to the mother in law) a perfectly fitting camouflage cover! It's cost about £30 and is much more practical than the ludicrously expensive ones you can buy!

So, I'm going to begin systematically photographing the birds i can find around my house (such as Curlew, Pied and Grey Wagtails and Little Owl)

I can't wait!

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:29 pm

So there is Chris, some good photographers there too.
A hide made of plastic tubing eh! Did you mother in law knit the camo cover

. I gather it needs to be light weight and so portable.
Good to have birds like curlew wagtail aroud your house. Are you on the moors?

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:14 pm

Probably about time I joined the Gloucestershire branch of BC. I wonder how many forum members I might meet there

Dave

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:22 pm

haha! I'm not sure a knitted cover would be ideal! But my father in law would give me the world if I could keep her quiet for a few days! maybe I'll suggest it!!

I live between the Yorkshire Dales and the NY Moors, next to the river Swale so we get all sorts of birds on the fields... I can include Oystercatcher on my garden bird list! I bet that not many people can claim that!

The curlew and the wagtails never actually come into the garden but I know all the landowners from 'down't pub' and they've granted me free access to their land to set up a hide. my bird photography to date is verging on sh##, so I can't wait to get some proper practice in.

how are you going to tie over until the Spring?