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bricket wood
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:11 am
by Dave Mac
If the weather is ok I intend to visit Bricket wood near Watford tomorrow. This is mainly because its just down the road from where I live and there have been recent reports of a silver washed fritillary and some white admirals both of which would be new to me.
However its quite a large area so I don’t have a clue where to look for the bugs. Could any of the forum members who are familiar with the area point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:36 pm
by Dave Mac
Well, I visited Bricket wood as promised and after a couple of hours tramping around the footpaths I stumbled across an area that looked like prime white admiral habitat. I sat down and waited and after a few minutes a couple of white admirals duly arrived and one eventually landed. As a bonus there was also a white letter hairstreak (unless I’ve got the identification wrong) on the same bramble bush.
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:51 pm
by Trev Sawyer
Well done for finding the white admiral... I haven't seen any this year yet.
NB: the second shot is a Purple Hairstreak.
Trev
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:46 pm
by Dave Mac
Thanks Trev, my identification skills are legendary ie they don’t exist in real life
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:13 pm
by Bryan H
Dave Mac wrote:Thanks Trev, my identification skills are legendary ie they don’t exist in real life
Cheers
Dave
Bryan