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November Butterfly! 14-11-2014
I had been hoping for a November butterfly this year as I was going to try and see a butterfly in every month of the year (what with Bob and a Red Admiral in January and another Small Tort in Feb). But things weren’t looking good as I’d missed the boat during the first couple of days of the month before the weather deteriorated – it was like a switch had been flicked, October ended with record highs and then in November the rain had been turned on and the heating off! In the end I’d given up all hope and so had even stopped carrying my camera to work.
So imagine my mixed feeling of joy and annoyance when on Children in Need day a Red Admiral stopped to bask on the Stocks which were to be used for Sponge the Teacher. In desperation I used the camera on my iPod touch to get a record shot but it wasn’t up to the standard that I can get with my usual set up. Luckily the Science Department has a little digital camera which we use on trips etc so I cranked that up to Macro and tried a few with that. Again, not brilliant but slightly better than the iPod. The thing that was most annoying was that the view from the viewfinder didn’t correspond with the actual framing of the shot. I‘d have to make the usual approach, zoom in and check the image through the viewfinder and then move the camera down slightly to get the butterfly in frame. It was all a bit hit or miss and the focus wasn’t great as to get the butterfly in shot I had to guess where to hold the camera and it didn’t actually focus on the butterfly. Later on a second Red Admiral (wing damage) landed in the neighbouring pine tree and here it remained whilst I was able to try out yet another different camera – a Canon Powershot belonging to the ICT department. This at least produced an image which corresponded with what was on the viewing screen/viewfinder but it still wasn’t as crisp as I can get with my Nikon. In the end I gave up ruing the fact that I’d left my camera at home and since then it make the journey to work with me every day. Mind you my November butterflies didn’t end there with a Small Tortoiseshell on Thursday 20th November again at work. This time I did have my camera, but it was in my lab and I couldn’t leave the main hall and go back and get it. Then there was a Red Admiral on 28th Nov in the train station while I was buying my ticket for the Social
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Have a goodun
Wurzel