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Wurzel
This years challange with the Grayling will be to get an upperside shot from the little buggers!Wurzel wrote:Grayling are great value for money butterflies - cryptic colouring, different habitat, interesting behaviour - they've almost go it all, great stuff Bugboy![]()
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Look out for pairs indulging in courtship. These usually present good opportunities for upper wing shots.bugboy wrote:This years challange with the Grayling will be to get an upperside shot from the little buggers!
Yup and if that fails I shall resort to a combination of flash, fast shutter speed and pot luck! We should never underestimate the role of pot luck in wildlife photography.David M wrote:Look out for pairs indulging in courtship. These usually present good opportunities for upper wing shots.bugboy wrote:This years challange with the Grayling will be to get an upperside shot from the little buggers!
They are quite regular at London Zoo. The cocoons are incredable, they look like a network of liquid mercury!Goldie M wrote:I love that Comet Moth Bugboy, I've never seen one before and I've been in a few Butterfly Houses Goldie
Hahaha, did you have an Arsenal top onWurzel wrote:Great Essex BugboyIs Tottenham Marshes between Tottenham Hale and Walthamstow? If it is it brings back some memories for me as I got banned from a pub on the edge of it
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Sounds like an average friday night in this part of the worldWurzel wrote:I lived in Tottenham Hale for a couple of years just over the road from what used to be the Lidls by the tube station. The pub was just on the very edge of the marshes - my mate/Guitarist was slightly worse for drink and so left via the window rather than the door which was enough to get us both banned![]()
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They don't Guy, they just visit for the winter, four or five turn up every year. I saw two out of the four showing today. I suppose there is always a chance a pair will hang around one year and nest but this has yet to happen.Padfield wrote:I had no idea bitterns bred in Barnes. Great views of an iconic bird.
Guy