Introduction plus an ID request.

PaulJBN · Post by **PaulJBN** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:11 pm

Hello all.

I am a total novice at this butterfly malarky, just got the 'bug' for it this last summer. Not sure why, but there you go - I'm hooked.

I don't have a proper camera as yet, just a little compat digital - so I have to get REALLY close to the sublect - like a couple of inches ! to get a half decent shot.

I have taken some quite acceptable pics this way - Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers and particularly Speckled Woods, which seem to sit still for me.

I was up in the Chilterns in mid September and shot this little thing. A skipper of some sort I guess.

Very poor quality I know, but it was the only shot I was able to get.

Cheers.

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:16 pm

Hi Paul - and welcome!

This looks like a female Silver-spotted Skipper to me. But I'm willing to be corrected

Cheers,

- Pete

Post by **Padfield** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:41 pm

Yes welcome, and well done! Although it can be locally common, the silver-spotted skipper is a nationally rare butterfly with a very limited distribution. If you weren't looking for it, that was quite a find for your first summer's lepping!

Guy

PaulJBN · Post by **PaulJBN** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:49 pm

Wow, thanks.

I would not have recognised it as such from my book, but now that you have given me the name, I can see where you are coming from.

Stroll on next summer - and a new camera !