Red Peacock
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:27 pm
Hi there
This is my first post as I have had nothing remarkable to contribute before, I think the world of your forum & check it regularly, which is always a joy especially now as the procession of treats has just begun.
We are lucky to live close to Denbies & Bookham Common, really though the whole area is studded with little gem like spots we have discovered over the summers (apologies to Northern posters, do those living on the Continent ever apologise?).
Anyway we were in Arlington nr Lewes on Saturday when a Peacock landed on the path in front of us, unlike the Blind Peacock picture in the Butterflies of Surrey book it had no blue at all just red grading to black. Needless to say I didn't get a picture as it just as quickly disappeared up into the widest blue. Is this that unusual?
Also in our local paper last weekend someone reported a Purple Emperor in Kingswood, Surrey. Could that be an escapee or somesuchlike?
thanks
richard
This is my first post as I have had nothing remarkable to contribute before, I think the world of your forum & check it regularly, which is always a joy especially now as the procession of treats has just begun.
We are lucky to live close to Denbies & Bookham Common, really though the whole area is studded with little gem like spots we have discovered over the summers (apologies to Northern posters, do those living on the Continent ever apologise?).
Anyway we were in Arlington nr Lewes on Saturday when a Peacock landed on the path in front of us, unlike the Blind Peacock picture in the Butterflies of Surrey book it had no blue at all just red grading to black. Needless to say I didn't get a picture as it just as quickly disappeared up into the widest blue. Is this that unusual?
Also in our local paper last weekend someone reported a Purple Emperor in Kingswood, Surrey. Could that be an escapee or somesuchlike?
thanks
richard