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Lulworth Skipper - Favourite Photo of 2016

Week 10

Week 10 and the Wurzel Christmas is now starting to move at a pace, the house is decorated and the Tree is up. However it has brought home to me the fact that I am suffering butterfly withdrawl symptoms as when I look at the silver bows on the tree I just see open wing underside views of Purple Hairstreaks

Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos - just to make it easier to organise and keep everything on track so that we can enjoy this throughout the winter months? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As like last year details of locations, dates, times and circumstances would be welcome as would any accompanying stories and anecdotes or other observations of behaviour and interesting other points.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

Bindon Hill, Dorset.

One of my targets and favourites from 2016.
More at:

http://markcolvin.blogspot.co.uk/2016/0 ... -1832.html

The first shot is really ace...

Tony M.

Off to a nice start Mark.
My contribution is from the Parc des Bruyères in Marseilles, South of France, early May.
Female (camera FZ150): same female : Male: same male: Chris

I only managed to catch this species at the end of its long season, on a trip to Durlston CP on 27th August. There were still quite a few rather tatty females flying, of which this is one. Dave

Like Dave above me, mine were seen at Durlston (a few weeks earlier). One of my lifers this year and once I got my eye in, they seemed to be everywhere along the coastal path. Here's a male and female And I was lucky enough to find a female ovipositing

Good effort with that laying female, Bugboy. You've sure seen some stuff this year!

Regular readers may recall my mission to see every one of the 'British' species during a single visit to a single site in France in late May.

Well here's a Lulworth from that particular excursion.

Lulworth Skipper

This was taken in mid-July at Lulworth Cove at my favourite little spot. Once I’ve walked down to the Cove and crossed the ice cold stream I always turn right and walk along to the end of beach. You become hemmed in by the cliffs behind and to the side of you but there are a number of narrow ledges and paths which criss-cross the side of the cliffs. Also there is a slightly wider path which flattens out slightly about half way up the climb. This is the spot where I always head and have found Lulworths here on almost every visit. So was on this day and at this place that I found some more and this one was my favourite. It wasn’t just that it was in fine fettle but also because it was found by my younger daughter who had eagerly suggested that we went ‘climbing’ so that we could find the ‘little, mad butterflies’.
Have a goodun

Wurzel