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Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:12 pm
by Vince Massimo
Here is the opportunity to post your favourite photo(s) of a particular species taken in 2012 (or the last time you saw one!).
This is part of a series of topics which will grow over 20 weeks throughout the winter until all 59 UK species have been covered. The intention is to showcase three species per week (in alphabetical order), so please wait until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos. Our overseas friends are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants.
Details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome and please feel free to contribute observations of behaviour, stories of personal encounters, anecdotes or other interesting points.
Vince
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:15 pm
by Wurzel
It was very difficult to choose my favourite Red Admiral. It was the first Species I saw in2012, I saw them throughout the year and it was the last species I saw. In fact for the last month of the season they were almost all I saw! The diversity of habitats was quite staggering – Grasslands, Heaths, Woodlands, on the coast, car parks, gardens and the centre of towns. However my favourite shot came from my greenhouse. When I first got into Butterfly photography I found a Small White in my greenhouse, last year it was a Green Veined White and this year it was the turn of the Red Admiral.
Having saved it from the butterfly equivalent of concussion and getting fried it crawled onto my hand and I held it outside to release it. Rather than flying off straight away it took a few trips round my hand and then settled down to bask! I had to go back inside so I blew on it gently and after a few seconds where it seemed to wake up it was off!
Have a goodun
Wurzel
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:28 pm
by MikeOxon
After such a poor season, I was delighted to find a bonanza of Vanessids on the wonderful herbaceous border at Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire. This was a favourite because of the way in which the reflected light from the flower has illuminated the subtle cryptic markings on the wing underside.
![RedAdmiral2012.jpg (123.59 KiB) Viewed 3002 times Waterperry Gardens, Oxon - 2nd October 2012<br />Nikon D300s with Tamron 90mm macro + 1.4X TC - 1/250s@f/16 ISO400](./files/thumb_11310_5bb91db922b19b871a00944083fdbe0a)
- Waterperry Gardens, Oxon - 2nd October 2012
Nikon D300s with Tamron 90mm macro + 1.4X TC - 1/250s@f/16 ISO400
Mike
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:35 pm
by CFB
My favourite Red Admiral of 2012:
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Colin
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:36 pm
by ChrisC
most of the blue buddlieas were wasted this season with wet weather, thankfully a later flowering white did the business for me this year. I liked this one as i don't think it could have had it's wings any further open. the red admirals had a cracking season and were pretty much present daily weather permitting.
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:10 pm
by David M
Hard to resist photographing a Red Admiral when you see one. I saw a fresh one at West Williamston in late August basking on a leaf and managed to snap it before it zoomed off on its merry way:
![Image](http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/r623/DM1067/JulyAug2012/WWRedAdm-1.jpg)
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:45 pm
by millerd
I have so many Red Admiral photos, but there were a couple I liked particularly. One is a silouhette taken after sunset of a still active butterfly that had been harrassing me as I walked along (plus the same view, taken with flash for comparison). The other is a distant shot of no less than five Red Admirals in the middle of a soaring chase in the treetops. (A wider view I have shows two more insects, but it is impossible to say whether they were also Red Admirals: fading memory tells me that one was a Comma.) This captures for me the energy and agility of this insect...
Dave
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:37 pm
by Goldie M
I had a difficult time last Summer even finding a Red Admiral until Sept when I managed at last to get a photo so this one out of the ones I took must be my Favourite Goldie
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:37 pm
by Neil Freeman
I had a good year with Red Admirals with more visiting the garden than for some years. From July onwards I seemed to have at least one regularly staking out the nettle patch at the end of the garden and sometimes there would be 2 or 3 spiralling high up into the sky.
Then came my week in Dorset in early September when numbers seemed to build until I saw hundreds on the heather behind the dunes at Studland followed by a few weeks when they were everywhere I went.
![Studland 03.09.2012 782resze.JPG (429.93 KiB) Viewed 2918 times Red Admirals - Studland 03.09.2012](./files/thumb_10101_18428e1aaea2acff917b12704f68a856)
- Red Admirals - Studland 03.09.2012
![Studland 03.09.2012 900resize.JPG (396.26 KiB) Viewed 2918 times Red Admiral - Studland 03.09.2012](./files/thumb_10101_7f8e8c7d35a60722fecb73146649dd8e)
- Red Admiral - Studland 03.09.2012
![Castle Hills 29.09.2012 008resize.JPG (388.21 KiB) Viewed 2918 times Red Admiral - Castle Hills Solihull 29.09.2012](./files/thumb_10101_2690544b51e89ae8450ad366f47f3e8f)
- Red Admiral - Castle Hills Solihull 29.09.2012
Cheers,
Neil.
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:50 pm
by Mark Colvin
Ticehurst, 18 September 2012
Pick your own …
A beautiful female at rest.
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=5432&start=540#p65453
Re: Red Admiral - Favourite Photo of 2012
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:26 pm
by David M
Wow. That female looks gravid beyond capacity, Mark.