Re: Bugboys mission
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 7:52 pm
Haha, maybe Wurzel, I must have been channeling something to get them to behave for once!
Thanks David, from what I've seen locally I reckon Peacocks will eclipse all those if the weather ever calms down a bit.
Thanks Neil, with them behaving I just couldn't resist a group shot, contrived as it was
Thanks Pauline. It would have been a better image had I not had to increase the ISO to levels I rarely use just to get anything useful. I found a Green Woodpecker chick poking his head out the hole the other day but you'll have to wait a while to see that, only just got them off my camera!
June 2020
Saturday 20th. A day I’d been looking forward too all week, my first chance to escape the confines of the M25 since lockdown started and a welcome change of scenery to the familiarity of Bookham
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Before that though a quick update on the Holly Blue larvae, they’d begun to pupate, some in the corners of the cage but most were using the leaves. My final three Peacock pupae had all emerged when I wasn’t looking, two overnight and one whilst I was at work
At Bookham I very quickly started adding a few new species to the yearly tally. I’d seen a random Marbled White on my local patch a few days previously but today I managed a few snaps, they are a recent coloniser here and are now breeding in small numbers on the plains.
Ringlets were a new species for the year too and I was pleased to add Silver-washed Fritillary (no pics though) and White Admiral to the list All the other usual suspects were around, Red Admirals, Commas, Meadow Browns and various brands of Skippers as well as a few glimpses of Purple Hairstreaks. I also spent a bit of time trying to follow one of two Cuckoo who were calling, the best image I got was a distant shot just as it took flight. I left at noon because I wanted to go and find the Black Hairstreak location at nearby Epsom Common. With more open habitat here, Marbled Whites were more numerous. After wandering around for a bit, pretty sure I was close to the spot, I bumped into a fellow enthusiast who showed me the area I was after (I wasn’t as close as I thought I was). Unsurprisingly no Black Hairstreak were seen, I was long past the peak, but as I scanned the Blackthorn a small silvery butterfly fluttered down to settle down in front of me and later did his best impersonation of a Black Hairstreak, hiding in the Blackthorn. So good to get out of London
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Thanks David, from what I've seen locally I reckon Peacocks will eclipse all those if the weather ever calms down a bit.
Thanks Neil, with them behaving I just couldn't resist a group shot, contrived as it was
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Thanks Pauline. It would have been a better image had I not had to increase the ISO to levels I rarely use just to get anything useful. I found a Green Woodpecker chick poking his head out the hole the other day but you'll have to wait a while to see that, only just got them off my camera!
June 2020
Saturday 20th. A day I’d been looking forward too all week, my first chance to escape the confines of the M25 since lockdown started and a welcome change of scenery to the familiarity of Bookham
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Before that though a quick update on the Holly Blue larvae, they’d begun to pupate, some in the corners of the cage but most were using the leaves. My final three Peacock pupae had all emerged when I wasn’t looking, two overnight and one whilst I was at work
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
At Bookham I very quickly started adding a few new species to the yearly tally. I’d seen a random Marbled White on my local patch a few days previously but today I managed a few snaps, they are a recent coloniser here and are now breeding in small numbers on the plains.
Ringlets were a new species for the year too and I was pleased to add Silver-washed Fritillary (no pics though) and White Admiral to the list All the other usual suspects were around, Red Admirals, Commas, Meadow Browns and various brands of Skippers as well as a few glimpses of Purple Hairstreaks. I also spent a bit of time trying to follow one of two Cuckoo who were calling, the best image I got was a distant shot just as it took flight. I left at noon because I wanted to go and find the Black Hairstreak location at nearby Epsom Common. With more open habitat here, Marbled Whites were more numerous. After wandering around for a bit, pretty sure I was close to the spot, I bumped into a fellow enthusiast who showed me the area I was after (I wasn’t as close as I thought I was). Unsurprisingly no Black Hairstreak were seen, I was long past the peak, but as I scanned the Blackthorn a small silvery butterfly fluttered down to settle down in front of me and later did his best impersonation of a Black Hairstreak, hiding in the Blackthorn. So good to get out of London
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)