Hi guy,

Paul brock is in oz at the moment, but the man to ask is mikhail.

gary.

HI Paul, what a stunning image! youv'e been able to capitalize on a brief moment with a wonderful species, capturing exposure, detail and accurate colour rendition to its full for the given chance encounter. Thats not easy to do. Its without a doubt one of the best representations of a female purple...

Cheers Guy,
its not something that ive noticed before myself.

Gary.

Found an unusually dark marked small skipper yesterday, one which ive not seen as dark before.
Has anyone any referance to this as being within normal variation as ive looked in a the species file and found nothing to match.

Gary.

for anyone who's interested,

there has been a big beautiful white tailed sea eagle knocking around in hordle on the south side of the new forest for a few days now and it seems to have put up temporary home in some local paddocks.
very viewable from the road.

gary

merry christmas to all on uk butterflies!

gary.

absolutely stunning pics zond,

love the kestrel !

gary.

blimey,

that was a labour of love, but you had some great results.
but i think you've convinced me, its so easy why bother

gary.

hi zonda, thanks for the pointer! must say your legaliae does look a good candidate for the id. ive had a look at your link and the mushroom picture folders, some amazing species there, how long did it take you to accumulate such a collection of images? are you tempted to go out and recapture them a...

hi zonda, like you ive been enthusiasticaly filling the void mushroom hunting for the last couple of weeks and it can get addictive! i have some superb sites five mins from my house so have spent most of my spare time there of late and the season has kicked off very well. the boletus have been showi...

thanks to everyone that voted for my picture!

congratulations to rodosranger and nickkor and well done to all who entered

gary.

cheers mickael,

gary

hi micheal, thanks also for your clear advise on ND filters, i must invest in one myself. ive been playing around with photo stitching for a while, only using the basic canon zoombrowser software which is alright but if your don't as you say pay attention to keeping the images on an level sweep you ...

hi chris,

spot on.

gary.

hi teejay, although vines is somewhat variable overall, it has quite large stigmata ( the round and kidney shaped marks with pale edges) which your moths have compared with both uncertain and rustic. but the biggest clue is the flight season, the vines are peaking right now were as both rustic and u...

hi teejay,

moths 1,2,3 and 5 look like vines rustic and moth 4 the turnip moth

gary.

hi lee, well the old family home was in north london, chingford, more specifically it backed onto the hugh reservoir "the girling" which is at the lower end of the lea vally. as a child my bedroom overlooked the channal system and water authority land, i could watch gooseanders and red bre...

blimey you'll be able to retire early on that!

gary

good on ya mate!

gary. ps when do you open for visiting?

hi zonda, you must be proud, and so you should be to share your garden with such a beautiful butterfly! i have to nip down to barton or keyhaven to see mine. its the butterfly that i have earliest recollections of as a child in london, we had them in the back allyway behind our garden, and are the s...