Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
- Pete Eeles
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Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
Hi folks - just after some statistics that I can't get other than by asking you. Please respond!
Cheers,
- Pete
Cheers,
- Pete
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- Pete Eeles
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Well since I haven't yet joined BC you could almost I didn't join because this site is so good. I will join this year once only the medical problems clear up. Only reason I didn't join last year was I wan't to join before the season so I could get to know people beforehand. The only other question is which branch to join, Gloucestershire or West Midlands.
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Hi Dave - sorry to hear about the medical problems. Anyway - don't see this website as a substitute for BC - they provide organised field trips, provide a quarterly magazine, and the branches also provide their own reports. On the subject of the latter, you can join as many branches as you like. I personally belong to 2.DaveW wrote:Well since I haven't yet joined BC you could almost I didn't join because this site is so good. I will join this year once only the medical problems clear up. Only reason I didn't join last year was I wan't to join before the season so I could get to know people beforehand. The only other question is which branch to join, Gloucestershire or West Midlands.
Cheers,
- Pete
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Re: Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
Better late than never; I have finally joined up. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
I'm a late starter too, Susie. I've been a member of the Avon Wildlife Trust for a while already, but having met a couple of BC members around the reserves this year I had to join BC as well.
Re: Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
Jolly good, eccles. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
Yes it did...
I did a speight of serious (fee earning photography) back in the 80s and it was then that my initial interest in butterflies started but after a couple of bad years and with the onset of digital I packed up for nearly 15 years.
Got a digi compact in 2003 when it all kicked off again but as you all know these are worthless - press the shutter a wait!!!!
The SLR arrived as a retirement pressie in 2006 so it is from here that it all counts for me - a complete novice. One thing life is so much easier now with this site - it all used to be word of mouth when I started in Oxford.
Joined BC after meeting Maurice.....
Mike
I did a speight of serious (fee earning photography) back in the 80s and it was then that my initial interest in butterflies started but after a couple of bad years and with the onset of digital I packed up for nearly 15 years.
Got a digi compact in 2003 when it all kicked off again but as you all know these are worthless - press the shutter a wait!!!!
The SLR arrived as a retirement pressie in 2006 so it is from here that it all counts for me - a complete novice. One thing life is so much easier now with this site - it all used to be word of mouth when I started in Oxford.
Joined BC after meeting Maurice.....
Mike
Re: Raison d'etre for UK Butterflies
I got interested in Butterflies by seeing different BF land in my garden when I arrived back from abroad where I'd lived for ten years this was in the 80's . I didn't buy a computer until the 90's when I found your web site, I really knew nothing much about them (still learning)so you could say you've broaded my horizons
so my answer his yes Goldie ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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