Hopefully, Jack's Peacocks will be tucked-up, full of nectar waiting to greet him in the spring again....
Over here, grey and damp. A few days ago, single RA, Sp Wood and Small White; been a good end of the season for the Small White, as they were visibly absent earlier.

Black version of this abs from 2011.... Again, Fermyn is THE place to go

Neil before your God.....

For those who didn't use film cameras, just imagine how many rolls of film you would use on a shoot if you banged-away as you can with digital equipment! For that reason, you used to be very careful with each shot; not that, most of the time, you ended-up with in-focus and sharp pictures......most ...

....or I could lend you this, if you wanted an upgrade, Jack!
An Eastman Kodak

For those who didn't use film cameras, just imagine how many rolls of film you would use on a shoot if you banged-away as you can with digital equipment! For that reason, you used to be very careful with each shot; not that, most of the time, you ended-up with in-focus and sharp pictures......most o...

Missed the original post, Jack.
If you want to replace yours, I guess I could lend you mine.......

Jack My son has just moved to a job in local government as a Conservation Officer. He finds that there is NO budget for him to use, as it is all "outsourced" to contractors (who are ******** useless) as profit is their first concern, not conservation. He is expected to raise other funds th...

Carlisle 2nd - 4th August Indoors in guest house, two Tortoiseshells hibernating. Jack Yes - Majority of Small Tortoiseshell seem to have withdrawn into hibernation, though I have seen a few caterpillar webs in the last week. Our Recorder is going to look at what the data says about hibernation &qu...

And especially for PhilB and Rogerdodge, who I know just love butterflies on garden plants....
...here's one I took today....

Second broods are certainly providing the interest at the moment, now that Brown Hairstreak have emerged and Clouded Yellow made their appearance. More migrants to come? .
2n brood Brown Argus today.... and Common Blue female....

Nick That female Black Hairstreak is fabulous. She seems to be using a hind foot to help pull the thing out. Lovely stuff Nice to hear from you, Roger! It was a privilege to watch her. We saw 2 females that lead us a merry dance as they crawled through the blackthorn testing for the exact right pla...

Out yesterday with PhilB; a quick trip to Bedford Purleius revealed a couple of early Silver-washed, lots of Ringlet, Speckled Wood and Meadow Brown with a few Large Skipper and a fresh Comma. Later at Monk's Wood, our first 2 White Admiral, a couple of Red Admiral and Comma, a few Ringlet, Meadow B...

What a season - it's all happening at once. SWT, WLH and now Large Blue - how early is this season...?

Met Jason at Monk's Wood with PhilB today; saw plenty - up in the bushes - but eventually were rewarded with a good photo opportunity; unfortunately Jason has gone by then....

Rosalyn wrote: Bill (Willrow) would this be the rare and elusive Norfolk Hawker? Could this, along with the Swallowtail, ever tempt you to venture east?

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Ah, good - you got a picture of the brown one! Norfolk Hawker goes down on the tick-list.....

Strumpshaw with Roasalyn and Phil yesterday; more photographers than butterflies flocking to the good doctor's garden! We went looking for Swallowtails elsewhere; 10+ seen. including this one on the field next door and a female on the Resrve. Lots of fresh Small Tortoiseshell, with Painted Lady, Pea...

Restricted to my local patch, I still can't get enough of female Common Blue (and I got a new toy - Nikkor 105mm macro - to play with)....

I'm not sure if there's ever been a confirmed sighting of britannicus outside of the Norfolk broads. But, I quote from the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership Scheme (http://www.cambsacre.org.uk/downloads/owlp_scheme_summary_mar_2014_140320080933.pdf ) "New fenland habitats are being created to ...

I think location will be the initial and primary indicator of whether a Swallowtail is gorganus or britannicus , and we'd have to see gorganus sightings coming from Norfolk before we'd need to take a closer look. Cheers, - Pete Last year we had reports of Swallowtail from Essex; id from photos was ...

I think location will be the initial and primary indicator of whether a Swallowtail is gorganus or britannicus , and we'd have to see gorganus sightings coming from Norfolk before we'd need to take a closer look. Cheers, - Pete Last year we had reports of Swallowtail from Essex; id from photos was ...