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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:08 pm
by Susie
Those aren't mozzies, they're fairies!
Love your butterfly photos, I thought I was doing well with a small tort, a couple of red admirals, a comma and large and small whites.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:29 pm
by ChrisC
if fairies suck blood then yep they were fairies
ta for the comments on the pics, not as good as a brown hairstreak mind
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:47 pm
by ChrisC
not knowing what i wanted to do today, choices being preparing soffits and fascias for painting, go out after butterflies or do something else. i decided to do something else...... I drove up to Longstock nursery in search of a later flowering buddliea. it was about 10. when i got there and already lots of butterflies on the buddlieas, Peacock, comma, red ad and small torts galore. I spent half an hour just walking up and down the row in the main garden part just enjoying the spectacle. the camera stayed firmly in it's case as too many butterflies to choose from. so making note of the one i wanted to get i headed into the nursery and ended up with 2. Autumn beauty and bicolour flowerpower (Susie it was on your recomendation so it better be good
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) well they proved a hit in the garden as before i could sit down and contemplate where to put them 2 silver-y were already on them. they have been occupied all day so still don't know where they are going to go. so now i'm up to 10 varieties. i can forsee a conifer and apple tree suddenly needing to come down
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here they are,
and some shots from today all taken on them
this comma used all it could to try and push off the small tort.
so ..... so far so good.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:53 pm
by Susie
Have you ever known me to be wrong?
Don't answer that!
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 6:20 pm
by ChrisC
took the afternoon off and popped over Martin Down.. small heath, meadow brown, common blue, single chalkhill, possible Adonis but wind took it, red ad, small tortoishell,] small and large white, small copper. as you will see some are really starting to look tired. but some stunning fresh common blues.
and if you want to see a male blue pulled around by a female for 4 minutes this video is for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcwikZDc ... ature=plcp[/video]
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:49 pm
by Susie
That last common blue photo is utterly gorgeous
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:32 am
by Debbie
Lovely pictues, and great common blue
Debbie
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:16 pm
by ChrisC
Thank you Ladies
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it was my favourite too
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Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:39 pm
by ChrisC
martin down again this morning. after my afternoon visit during the week i had a rough idea of where to stake out. and the butterflies didn't let me down. at one point a chalkhill, adonis and 2 common blue chasing each other. ok maybe not in the best condition but still great to watch.
some of the common blues were in fine fettle
with females varying from brown to almost blue, including 2 ovipositing which i've not witnessed before
some of the adonis were looking tired and the wind caught the freshest one after one (bad) shot not to be seen again
a small heath doing something other than laying in the grass which was a pleasure to see. past the sell by date though.
and on the way back my eye caught some movement to see this little chap keeping an eye on me
a pleasant couple of hours of pretty much just sitting watching.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:06 pm
by ChrisC
as mentioned in previous post. my first egglaying encounter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrEZE_O ... ature=plcp
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:25 pm
by ChrisC
a very nice autumn day today started with a lie in before taking the dogs out. the dew bringing the normally invisible world of spiders to life, webs were everywhere
by the time i got back the garden was starting to come to life
an afternoon walk with the dogs didn't produce many butterflies but there is still plenty to see
fox moth caterpillars were fairly common
looking for A.quadratus, i didn't find any, but i did find plenty of other species including a couple of raft spiders
but while watching a large dragonfly over a small ditch i spotted my first ever Black Darter
a fine Autumn day.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:27 pm
by Wurzel
The Black Darter is a beaut - the Stealth Darter almost
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:29 pm
by ChrisC
thanks Wurzel, i was chuffed to see it.
a 2nd new species for the weekend
zygiella atrica, although a common species i have looked at many hundreds of
zygiella x-notata in my quest to find of these, tonight i succeeded. The extra long palps are the give away. not normally associated with buildings but this guy was on the side of the bungalow. it's almost a relief that i don't need to look so much now, though if i find him again in daylight i'm hopeful of a better picture
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:57 pm
by ChrisC
had the company of this most of the afternoon, the thicker the cloud the more pronounced it was, unfortunately my skill (or lack of) or the limits of the camera couldn't quite capture it.
just messing around reversed out in black and white. the eye in the sky
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:14 pm
by Susie
Sauron!
"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:00 pm
by Nick Broomer
Lovely photos Chris, especially the second one, you even managed to dot the eyes.
All the best, Nick.
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:09 pm
by MikeOxon
Susie wrote:Sauron!
I think it should be red for him!
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(apologies, Chris for messing about with your pic)
Mike
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 6:02 pm
by ChrisC
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no worries Mike
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:41 pm
by ChrisC
well i bit the bullet yesterday and bought myself a Digital SLR, a macro lens and some extension tubes, only had a chance to use the macro lens, and judging by the cropped images below, there could be some interesting pictures next year
Re: ChrisC
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:37 pm
by Neil Freeman
Nice ones Chris,
Looking forward to seeing what you post with your new kit.
Cheers,
Neil F.