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Ringlet - Favourite Photo 2016

Week 14

So here we are into 2017 proper with most people back at work - hopefully the Species Favourite Thread will keep our spirits up

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

My favourite Ringlet shot was taken on a still, warm and overcast morning when this obliging male just wanted to sit with wings open.

I didn't end up with many shots of this species in 2016: however, here is an unusual mostly "blind" example (ab. arete or nearly so) from my sister's garden in Yorkshire. Dave

This one posed nicely for me at Box Hill at the end of June.

I must admit I didn't take many shots of the Ringlet this year, I saw quite a few at Gait Barrow but I struggled to get decent shots, they were freshly out and never still
I'd to wait until I was in Blean Woods in Kent on the 13th of Aug before I got a reasonable shot, not really a favourite but my one and only Goldie

Are Browns dull? - well, they can be, but not this one, which even sports an extra small ring on the right forewing.
Mike

Although there were plenty of Ringlets around my local patch in 2016, numbers were definitely down on previous years and I only took a few photos of them including this one of a slightly worn female that was about the best I managed.
Cheers,

Neil.

Ringlet

This was taken at the end of June during a fantastic outing with Philzoid. We’d encountered plenty of Large Blues and Daneways and were trying our luck at my Duke Site for DGFs. It paid off with several sightings and in amongst the ginger beauties I found this cracking Ringlet which featured the largest ‘eyes’ I encountered to date. Have a goodun

Wurzel

I took a fresh specimen of a male on 30 June on my local patch at Norton Green Common. Note the three eyespots on the forewings but I am unsure if this can be classified as an aberration.

ATB

Peter

One of my favourite summer species.

The following female from Chidingfold Forest in late June 2016.
http://markcolvin.blogspot.co.uk/2016/0 ... brown.html

No shortage of this species in south Wales in 2016, although it took until 23rd July till I took an image of one, at Old Castle Down near Bridgend: