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Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:55 pm
by Wurzel
Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Week 12
Happy New Year everyone! What a way to start the New Year with a trio of fabulous looking butterflies to make your favourite selection for! Here’s hoping that everyone has a tremendous 2023, may it be a butterfly bonanza!
Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos as then it will be easier to keep track of things? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As in previous years details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome as would any accompanying stories and anecdotes or other observations of behaviour and interesting other points.
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 6:54 pm
by Bertl
My Aberdeen garden was busy with these colourful butterflies in late August. Best shots attached.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:30 pm
by Allan.W.
In the first week of April ,i noticed a large Nettle clump around the base of an electricity pylon in a field on my local home patch ,and from a distance could see a couple of what i assumed to be Peacocks flitting about ,as i got closer i saw that at least one of the few was actively egg laying ...........so i was able to take a few shots ,probably the only Peacock pictures that i took all season.
Allan.W.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:53 am
by David M
Love that last image in particular, Allan. That's a fair batch she's laid.
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Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:53 pm
by Goldie M
I didn't get the chance to take many shots of the Peacock last year, so when one landed in the garden of my new house and nearly got buried in the flower pot
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I just had to take that as a favourite
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It was the 30th of July and I'd just been in the house for four weeks Goldie
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Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:11 pm
by Neil Freeman
Not a good year for Peacocks around my patch. They were easily the least numerous of the three overwintering vanessids here (Red Admiral is still not a spring butterfly for me) although I did manage to see a few on spring blossom which always lifts the spirits.
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- Peacock - Wagon Lane - 22.03.2022
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- Peacock - Wagon Lane - 22.03.2022
The summer emergence appeared to be very poor locally although this may have been as much due to me not getting out as much as would have liked to around that time and therefore missing most of them.
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- Peacock - Blythe Valley 20.07.2022
Cheers,
Neil
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:50 pm
by Matsukaze
Early in the year (the first photo) and late, but not many in between. As ever, beautiful butterflies.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:33 pm
by bugboy
Peacocks on springtime nectar sources are always a joy to see.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:06 pm
by Wolfson
Despite being a bit tatty, this April Peacock sat perfectly still for my camera. There is something about the hindwing eyes I rather like.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:17 am
by downland boy
I came across this one happily basking in the mid-afternoon sunshine in March.
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Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:30 pm
by Allan.W.
Thanks David ! and judging by her HUGE ! abdomen ,she was far from finished ! curiously i looked for the egg batch on a couple of later visits ,and was unable to find it ....................probably predated, sadly !
Allan.W.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:28 pm
by David M
Allan.W. wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:30 pmThanks David ! and judging by her HUGE ! abdomen ,she was far from finished ! curiously i looked for the egg batch on a couple of later visits ,and was unable to find it ....................probably predated, sadly !
Shame if that hard work all went to waste, Allan.
I think I'd have tried to rear them had I found such a batch. Would have taken me back to my childhood when I did that with both Peacocks and Small Tortoiseshells when I found their ova on nettle leaves.
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:36 pm
by millerd
I saw my first Peacock of 2022 basking locally on a sunny 9th March: always an uplifting moment.
The first of the offspring of the 2021/22 hibernators appeared at the end of June, and their deep colours are such a contrast.
In this curious year, there was something of a gap in sightings until a handful made an appearance in October.
Dave
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:06 pm
by Wurzel
Peacock
Like a lot of my shots from early in the season this one came from Five Rivers. I chose it because Peacocks feeding on blossom always make attractive images but this is slightly different as I managed to get below the butterfly and capture the subtle detail of the wings which with a casual glance look just a black colour when in reality there are bands and stripes and spots – brilliant.
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:50 pm
by David M
Easy decision for me - this Peacock posed beautifully on some new blackthorn blossom at Cwm Ivy on 3rd April:
Re: Peacock - Favourite Photo of 2022
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:19 pm
by Phil Bowler
How the mighty have fallen! The numbers of the Peacock in our butterfly garden in 2022 were no more than in our very first year, 25 years ago, when the garden was hardly developed at all. Very frightening. And so, my choice of pic had to be this courtship one, in the hope that they soon bounce back and rebuild their former glory - 10 years ago we counted 268.