Bugboys mission

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:47 pm

Hello all fellow butterfly lovers. This is my first post here, only signed up today.

So what's my mission you must all be clammering to find out! Well this summer after getting back into macro photography I decided to set myself a challange: to photgraph every UK species in the next 5 years. I already had 24 of the list ticked of, the usual suspects found in London where I live (plus the Large Blue through a handy contact a few years ago). A few trips to Box Hill in Surry gave me a few more, my very first Silver Spotted Skipper and also Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, Silver Washed and Dark Green Fritillaries and a trip to Chobham Common got me the Grayling and some very old looking Silver Studded Blues. I shall be returning to these sights in the spring to catch some of the early flighers that apparently occur there.

But the real mission comes when I'm after the really local species, having lived in London my whole life I don't drive so getting to some of these sites could prove to be quite a mission.

So what is my aim for 2015? Well Heath Fritillary in South Essex, White Admiral, Purple Emperor, Dingy & Grizzled Skippers in Box Hill and hopefully a trip to the limestone wilds north of Morcambe.

When I work out how to put photo's up I shall start adding a few.

Hopefully someone will find this diary of interest although entries may well be few and far between until the spring arrives.

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:14 pm

A few pics from Box hill in August this year.

MikeOxon · Post by **MikeOxon** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:05 pm

bugboy wrote: I decided to set myself a challange: to photgraph every UK species in the next 5 years.

A good mission

My son set it for me when he was about 13 years old though, fortunately he didn't set a time limit. We completed it in in 2007, during a trip to Scotland for the Chequered Skipper. By then he was old enough to share a bottle of Champagne.

Mike

Neil Freeman · Post by **Neil Freeman** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:04 pm

Good luck with the mission, I look forward to seeing your further photos.

Cheers,

Neil.

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:59 pm

Thanks for the welcomes

Well since this is a diary of sorts I guess it's a bit silly not to make regular entries in the quiet season so I shall fill the empty winter days up with pics from species I have photgraphed over the past 10 or 15 years, 1 species per entry in no particular order. Today the lovely little Small Copper:

Wurzel · Post by **Wurzel** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:35 pm

Welcome Bugboy - some great stuff so far - looking forward to some more

Good luck with your mission, if you need a hand with Marshies or Lulworths then give me a PM.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 5:33 pm

Today feels like a Red Admiral day!

For those that are interested in such things I used a Canon EOS 400D with a sigma 50mm macro up until this summer when I upgraded to a 700D.

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:32 pm

Some Large Skippers today!

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:50 pm

Since the sun was out today I thought I'd get a breath of fresh air and have a wander in my local patch. Been fighting a recurring bought of tonsilitis recently so not been out as much as I'd like. Mainly out for a bit of casual twitching but took a few pics of the area of the Brown hairstreak sighting which I'll post in that thread for those that are interested to peruse and maybe cast an expert eye over.

Decided to put some moths up today, a couple of Longhorn micro moths:

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:01 pm

Green Veined white Tuesday:

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:22 pm

Hadn't noticed before but going through my pictures for this it seems I took loads in 2007 and this year and very little inbetween. I guess I was excited about my new Digital technology, have hundreds of slides going back into the mid 90's but need to find a good service to digitize them. Anyway, tonight it's the turn of the Peacock:

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:01 pm

The Common Blue:

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:37 pm

Some great shots Bugboy, especially considering that some of then are taken just off the A406

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:03 am

Maximus wrote:Some great shots Bugboy, especially considering that some of then are taken just off the A406

Haha, closer to the A104

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:06 pm

A couple of shots of the Purple Hairstreak tonight. Not the best conditioned individual but I do love the headon shot

Wurzel · Post by **Wurzel** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:12 pm

Cracking first Purple Hairstreak shot - I didn't have any luck with them this year

Have a goodun

Wurzel

David M · Post by **David M** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:50 pm

We'll forgive you for the scruffiness of the individual - any open wing Purple Hairstreak shot is noteworthy. Well done.

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:31 pm

Thanks guys. In all my time this is the only individual that has ever posed for me. All my other sightings are little silver dots flitting around the tops of oak trees!

Wurzel · Post by **Wurzel** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:15 pm

Just a quicky to say I'm not ignoring your PM - I'll try and get back to you this side of Xmas I'm just trying to get work done before the festivities

Have a goodun

Wurzel

bugboy · Post by **bugboy** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:37 pm

No worries Wurzel, plenty of time

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