Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2024

[Wurzel]

Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Favourite Photo of 2024

Week 13

So we have reached 12th night…I would have realised that it was due anyway as on Friday I saw my first Easter Egg displays in Exeter!

Please could I ask that everyone waits until a topic has been opened by me for a particular species before posting photos as then it will be easier to keep track of things? Of course our overseas members are very welcome to fill in the obvious gaps relating to rare UK migrants. As in previous years 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

[Bertl]

I visited my favourite PBF site at Cambus o may on Deeside on the 20th and 21st May.

The butterflies were still out in good numbers but not near the 2023 sightings.

Looking forward to my 2025 visit.

Cheers

Bert.

[bugboy]

Not hundreds of them but relatively easy to track down at Rewell Wood last year. This male was extremely eager but to no avail

An hour later, priorities had changed

[Matsukaze]

This individual, in the Spanish Pyrenees, appeared to be freshly emerged and posed for photos very nicely.

[David M]

I remember that one, Chris.

[Wurzel]

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

I was a poor year for Pearls in Bentley Wood. They were very late arriving on the scene and then when they finally deigned to turn up they were exceedingly difficult to catch up with even in the final throws of the evening. Luckily I was able to make a second trip to search them out and so came about my favourite image of them from the western side of Bentley. It wasn’t the best looking individual, in fact it was a little long in the tooth but the reason it was awarded the accolade of ‘Favourite’ was because it fell into my ‘Trousered’ collection.

Have a goodun

Wurzel

[David M]

Thanks to ernie f, I used a different site for PBFs in 2024. Siccaridge Wood, adjacent to Daneway Banks.

There were over a dozen on the wing there on 12th May:

[Neil Freeman]

The only Pearls that I saw in 2024 were when I met up with Mark Tutton for a look around Stansted Forest during the few days that we were down visiting our daughter in May. It seems that we were a bit early this year and in fact they had probably been held back a few days due to some poor weather the weekend before.
We found just three individuals, a fresh male that was flitting back and forth along one path and only briefly stopped just long enough for a quick photo.

Pearl-bordered Fritillary male - Stansted Forest 08.05.2024

The other two were a pair hunkered down in the grass that Mark spotted.

Pearl-bordered Fritillary pair - Stansted Forest 08.05.2024

Cheers,

Neil.

[millerd]

As Bugboy mentioned earlier, the Pearls weren't too difficult to find at Rewell Wood in May 2024, though not spectacular in numbers.

Dave