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End of season bonus
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:50 am
by Robin
Hi,
Pat & I went down to Pennington Marshes on Thursday following reports of Wall on the Hants & IOW BC website. I was very happy to find these very fresh looking third brood Walls. Also bumped into Pauline Richards who was hunting the same butterflies. Saw around 10 altogether.
First Mrs Wall
And now Mr wall
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:14 pm
by Dave McCormick
Hi Robin,
Nice Mr Wall, very colourful. I have never seen one yet, maybe next year. Won't be this year. Cool
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:24 pm
by Gwenhwyfar
Hi,
Pat & I went down to Pennington Marshes on Thursday following reports of Wall on the Hants & IOW BC website. I was very happy to find these very fresh looking third brood Walls. Also bumped into Pauline Richards who was hunting the same butterflies. Saw around 10 altogether.
Nice shots of Mr & Mrs Wall, we've looked for these three times this year at Pennington and never found any.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:13 pm
by Bryan H
Well done, Robin!
What elusive, but very striking, butterflies these are!
Bryan
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:54 pm
by Pete Eeles
Yeah - good "catch", especially at this time of year!
Cheers,
- Pete
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:02 pm
by David Tipping
I sometimes feel quite envious of those of you who live down south, until I read a thread like this. The wall is a species I see every year at various sites in my local patch, one of which is only 10 minutes walk from home. So maybe Yorkshire ain't such a bad place to live after all!
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:16 pm
by Chris
Like David, not rare about my parts... they sometimes frequent the garden. However, the difference is that there are still tattered second brood individuals to be seen here. A third brood?? that will be a nice Christmas present!!
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:55 pm
by Gwenhwyfar
Yahooooooooooooo, 4th time lucky!!!
Finaly found, not one but 6 Walls, also saw my ol fav the Small Copper! and a Small Tortoiseshell.
Thankyou Robin!
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:31 pm
by Rogerdodge
Well done Lisa - cracking butterfly isn't it?
Roger
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:33 pm
by Gwenhwyfar
Yep it sure is, but it did give me the run around though.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:18 pm
by Deer Stalker
Yay Lisa.
Where was it?
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:30 pm
by Gwenhwyfar
Hi D.S
Down at Pennington.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:40 pm
by Brian Phipps
Hi Lisa! Long time no see
Great picture something I hope to achieve next year with your help!
A lot of help needed reguarding my Butterfly ID`s wouldn`t go a miss either
Keep up the good work!
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:14 pm
by Gwenhwyfar
Hey Brian, yep it's been a while
Welcome to the forum!!
I thought it would take a while trying to convince you, that butterflies is where it's at!! - but I'm sure your gonna learn to love them, although You might swear a bit more than usual!
You'll love it.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:00 pm
by Jack Harrison
Robin and Pat.
Those are impressive photos with excellent resolution and good depth of field.
What camera, settings, etc do you use?
Thanks.
Jack
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:24 am
by Robin
Hi Jack,
My camera is a Canon 20D and I was using a Sigma 150mm f2.8 APO macro lens. I always use Aperture Priority. ISO 400.
The males exposure was 1/160 sec at f/16. Although I also took shots at f/11 and f/9.
The female was 1/400 sec at f/9.
Hope that helps,
Robin