Bugboys mission
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:47 pm
Hello all fellow butterfly lovers. This is my first post here, only signed up today.
So what's my mission you must all be clammering to find out! Well this summer after getting back into macro photography I decided to set myself a challange: to photgraph every UK species in the next 5 years. I already had 24 of the list ticked of, the usual suspects found in London where I live (plus the Large Blue through a handy contact a few years ago). A few trips to Box Hill in Surry gave me a few more, my very first Silver Spotted Skipper and also Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, Silver Washed and Dark Green Fritillaries and a trip to Chobham Common got me the Grayling and some very old looking Silver Studded Blues. I shall be returning to these sights in the spring to catch some of the early flighers that apparently occur there.
But the real mission comes when I'm after the really local species, having lived in London my whole life I don't drive so getting to some of these sites could prove to be quite a mission.
So what is my aim for 2015? Well Heath Fritillary in South Essex, White Admiral, Purple Emperor, Dingy & Grizzled Skippers in Box Hill and hopefully a trip to the limestone wilds north of Morcambe.
When I work out how to put photo's up I shall start adding a few.
Hopefully someone will find this diary of interest although entries may well be few and far between until the spring arrives.
So what's my mission you must all be clammering to find out! Well this summer after getting back into macro photography I decided to set myself a challange: to photgraph every UK species in the next 5 years. I already had 24 of the list ticked of, the usual suspects found in London where I live (plus the Large Blue through a handy contact a few years ago). A few trips to Box Hill in Surry gave me a few more, my very first Silver Spotted Skipper and also Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, Silver Washed and Dark Green Fritillaries and a trip to Chobham Common got me the Grayling and some very old looking Silver Studded Blues. I shall be returning to these sights in the spring to catch some of the early flighers that apparently occur there.
But the real mission comes when I'm after the really local species, having lived in London my whole life I don't drive so getting to some of these sites could prove to be quite a mission.
So what is my aim for 2015? Well Heath Fritillary in South Essex, White Admiral, Purple Emperor, Dingy & Grizzled Skippers in Box Hill and hopefully a trip to the limestone wilds north of Morcambe.
When I work out how to put photo's up I shall start adding a few.
Hopefully someone will find this diary of interest although entries may well be few and far between until the spring arrives.
My son set it for me when he was about 13 years old though, fortunately he didn't set a time limit. We completed it in in 2007, during a trip to Scotland for the Chequered Skipper. By then he was old enough to share a bottle of Champagne.
