ernie f
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:02 pm
As this is my first entry let me tell you a bit about myself. My name is Ernie Frost. My stamping ground is north-east Hampshire which gives me a variety of habitats to explore. For example I live a 15 minute drive away from Noar Hill – a famous chalk-hill reserve near Selbourne known for its Dukes and Brown Hairstreaks. Also the Alice Holt Woodland, famed for its Purple Emperors is not far and neither is Broxhead Common, a heathland reserve which harbours quite large populations of Silver-studded Blues and Small Coppers. I am also not too distant from Odiham Common where there is a breeding colony of White-letter Hairstreaks.
I recently retired from work and so have been able to follow one of my passions, that of nature watching. I have an especial keeness for butterflies, birds and flowers but any wildlife will take my interest as I am sure it does for everyone else who has a diary on this website.
I have been pursuing butterflies for a few years now but still consider myself to be a novice. I constantly meet other people out watching butterflies who always seem to know far more than me about them and I am constantly learning from them. You never stop learning do you? If I ever write anything which you know to be incorrect, please do not hesitate to let me know (in a gentle way of course) and tell me what it is and why you know. There are already a lot of participants on this website and some of you have posted hundreds of entries. I cannot hope to read them all so if you wish to comment on anything I have said and can refer to someone’s post (either your own or someone else’s), please could you supply the page number of the relevent post so I can find it more easily. Thanks.
I have a scientific background and so like to research things and try to find out the answers to questions I have. If you decide to read any of my posts this will probably become very evident, very quickly!
Like all wildlife enthusiasts I have an obsession about taking photographs. I have been known to take over 100 photos of a single butterfly species in an hour and spend many more hours when back at home on my computer agonising over which ones to delete and which to keep. Mine is not a great camera though – its only a fairly cheap bridge camera so any photos I post will not be of exceptional quality. I shall leave that for the true wildlife photographers out there. Nevertheless I hope you like the ones I do choose to show – especially the ones showing interesting behaviours. When I read other people’s posts on this website – those are the ones I am mostly drawn to.
I am writing this on Sunday 15th April, 2018 which was a year when spring seeemed to come late (at least as far as butterflies are concerned), so I intend to start my entries with some recent historic experiences and musings of mine. I am sure once the butterfly season really gets going this year I shall swap to current stuff.
I recently retired from work and so have been able to follow one of my passions, that of nature watching. I have an especial keeness for butterflies, birds and flowers but any wildlife will take my interest as I am sure it does for everyone else who has a diary on this website.
I have been pursuing butterflies for a few years now but still consider myself to be a novice. I constantly meet other people out watching butterflies who always seem to know far more than me about them and I am constantly learning from them. You never stop learning do you? If I ever write anything which you know to be incorrect, please do not hesitate to let me know (in a gentle way of course) and tell me what it is and why you know. There are already a lot of participants on this website and some of you have posted hundreds of entries. I cannot hope to read them all so if you wish to comment on anything I have said and can refer to someone’s post (either your own or someone else’s), please could you supply the page number of the relevent post so I can find it more easily. Thanks.
I have a scientific background and so like to research things and try to find out the answers to questions I have. If you decide to read any of my posts this will probably become very evident, very quickly!
Like all wildlife enthusiasts I have an obsession about taking photographs. I have been known to take over 100 photos of a single butterfly species in an hour and spend many more hours when back at home on my computer agonising over which ones to delete and which to keep. Mine is not a great camera though – its only a fairly cheap bridge camera so any photos I post will not be of exceptional quality. I shall leave that for the true wildlife photographers out there. Nevertheless I hope you like the ones I do choose to show – especially the ones showing interesting behaviours. When I read other people’s posts on this website – those are the ones I am mostly drawn to.
I am writing this on Sunday 15th April, 2018 which was a year when spring seeemed to come late (at least as far as butterflies are concerned), so I intend to start my entries with some recent historic experiences and musings of mine. I am sure once the butterfly season really gets going this year I shall swap to current stuff.