Dingy Skipper - Favourite Photo of 2014

[Wurzel]

Week 4

So continues sequence of posts giving one and all the opportunity to showcase their favourite shots of 2014 (or the last time you saw one )!

Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As like last year details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome as would any accompanying stories and anecdotes or other observations of behaviour and interesting other points.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

[MikeOxon]

'Dingy' is an unfortunate name for a butterfly that, when recently emerged, has striking markings! These were on the wing, when I visited the Seven Barrows reserve, near Lambourn, Berks., vying for attention with the rather similar Burnet Companion moths.

Seven Barrows, Berks - 16th May 2014
Lumix FZ200 (fl=108mm) - 1/640s@f/4 ISO125

Mike

[badgerbob]

Two pictures here from the year. The first is a roosting individual on my local patch. So easy to walk past them when they are like this, although once the eye is in they do become quite obvious!!
The other is a mating pair from Kent. It was towards the end of a fabulous day where many orchids had been seen as well as the good old 'Duke'.

[FISHiEE]

Here's mine from Old Winchester Hill. Tried something a bit different one evening

[Neil Freeman]

A couple from a cracking afternoon in late April when I went out around some Warwickshire sites looking for Dingy and Grizzled Skippers and Green Hairstreaks.

Dingy Skipper - Bishops Hill 24.04.2014

Dingy skipper - Harbury 24.04.2014

Cheers,

Neil.

[David M]

Here's mine from Old Winchester Hill. Tried something a bit different one evening

Excellent image, Fishiee. As you say, a completely different 'take' on the norm.

[Wurzel]

Dingy Skipper

I’d already found a Duke at Bentley Wood the previous day so I was hungry for more and hence I took a trip to my local Duke site at the start of May. Whilst there I thought it would be rude not to have a further mooch around and see what other delights were on offer.
This little beauty was one of the highlights of the day simply because it was so beautifully marked and so fresh – it looked like it had just stepped out of the salon!

Have a goodun

Wurzel

[Goldie M]

These two were my only ones this year both taken at Gaits Barrow first one on the 5th June and the second one on the 26th May, I find it a Butterfly hard to get a really good photo of, but that's just me Goldie

[ayjay]

Not too many opportunities to get a pic of one of these this year, this is probably my best, Martin Down - 5th June.

[David M]

Another species I was unforgiveably casual about in 2014.

I took a few images the first time I saw them on 4th May, but the only other occasion when I aimed my camera at one came on 15th May on Fairwood Common, Swansea, at the rear of where I live:

[millerd]

Here's one adopting the typical wrap-around roosting position. Denbies - 29th May.

Overall I didn't see very many at any location this year, but did see one at Totternhoe on 3rd May

and also one at Botany Bay on 4th May, a site where I'd not encountered them previously.

Dave