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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:43 pm
by Wurzel
That Peacock shot is a cracker Chris
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How do you manage to get Large Skippers in your garden?
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:11 pm
by ChrisC
Thanks Wurzel, the same goes for all the butterflies i get i just plant alot of plants and hope for the best
Chris
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:31 pm
by ChrisC
a brief hour visit to a cloudy very breezy martin down this afternoon produced, Brimstone, chalkhill blue, meadow brown, gatekeeper, small skipper, small copper, some worn looking DG frits, a single marbled white. but my main quarry was small copper. i'd say at least a dozen scattered about that i saw but i didn't get far.
this one was particularly nice with a multi coloured sheen, unfortunately i couldn't do it justice
couldn't turn down this opportunity
came home to another garden first that i can recall, a female red admiral
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 5:56 pm
by Debbie
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:28 am
by ChrisC
Thanks Debbie
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about time for the next entry in your diary isn't it?
Chris
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:36 pm
by ChrisC
a short walk this afternoon the cloud keeping the butterflies quieter. but took the camera anyway and glad i did
not for the Gatekeeper
not for the darter
but for this chap. a juvenile goldcrest.
shared an intimate minute or so with the family.
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?n ... uF_KIMAS-w
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:40 pm
by philm63
Chris
came home to another garden first that i can recall, a female red admiral
How do you sex these??
Phil
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:50 pm
by ChrisC
Hi Phil, i was assuming it was a female based purely on abdomen length.
Chris
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:43 pm
by Wurzel
Great Small Copper shots Chris, I was at Martin Down on Friday and there were a couple of nice ones there then too - and there was me all worried about em
I like your Gatekeeper too with 4 clear spots, I think I "need" one like that for my collection...
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:04 pm
by ChrisC
no butterflies but a moth and one not for arachniphobes
found this Black Arches on the wall of the bungalow, the marble white of the moths
and normally when i shine the torch on this one she scurries off, last night she didn't, despite the file name i'm not 100% percent sure if it's steatoda nobilis or Grossa, but she's a false widow that's for sure and a magnificent creature.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:11 pm
by Debbie
Hi Chris,
As always great diary and pictures .
I have not forgotten about mine, | just need to sort through my pictures to start it off.
I had been a little poorly, but I am fit and well and keen to get out butterflying again.
Debbie
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:25 pm
by ChrisC
thanks for the comments Debbie, glad you are feeling better.
chris
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:43 pm
by ChrisC
well diary readers, work means i can't compete with all the other diarists with stunning pictures of butterflies so i'm afraid it's going to be my highlight of August if not the year so far (it was the dingy skipper in the garden) but i'm afraid it doesn't have wings and has 2 extra legs. UKB may i introduce the RDB3 spider
hyptiotes paradoxus , now this wee beastie hasn't been recorded in Dorset for at least 60 years, until that is 'til yesterday hanging from my garden pergola
full distribution see here.
http://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal ... +paradoxus
to say i'm a happy chap is an understatement, well they say small things please small minds.
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:59 pm
by Padfield
That's fantastic, Chris!
You have made me decide I need a spider book...
Guy
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:19 pm
by ChrisC
be careful guy, they can be addictive
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and as my next picture will show, i'm an addict
following on from my last spider, i was out the front yesterday to see if anything was around. well not only was it around she's a beauty. i've posted a pic before I think but a while ago so let me introduce the nationally notable
Araneus angulatus
it would have been rude of me not to, last night i watched her come down and build her rather large web. a much quicker builder than than Garden spider.
i've adjusted contrast etc to make the web more visible
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:43 pm
by Pauline
Exactly how big is that web Chris
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It looks amazing and well done on the spider find.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:21 pm
by ChrisC
Thanks Pauline, i'd say it can't be too far off 2ft
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 1:03 pm
by ChrisC
just over an hour over Martin Down today got me my Brown argus, good to see so many butterflies. still at least half a dozen Dark greens clinging on. meadow browns, gatekeeper, small heath, brimstone, chalkhill and common blues, small copper, peacock,
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:27 pm
by ChrisC
i was out messing around in the front garden with some sky pics last night
when i hear the familiar whine of a mosquito. i looked at the end of the leylandii hedge i was standing next to and there was rather a lot of them.
rather than follow my basic instinct to run like hell and start scratching i thought i'd have some fun with them too.
when i increased the shutter speed i was surprised to get this one.
when they started landing on me i beat a hasty retreat.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:36 pm
by ChrisC
saturday was red admirals, sunday rain and cloud, tonight it was the turn of the Small toroiseshell. 7 on the buddliea along with red admirals. a sight for sore eyes as prior to this only 2 all year wherever i've been.
not a bad 10 minutes work and an absolute joy