Greetings from Silesia, CZE :)
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:17 pm
Location: Bloody near to Russia!
Date: 2009-08-31, 2009-09-01.
Equipment used: Kodak EasyShare C330; in other words, I just borrowed an ordinary digital camera and went to take some butterfly pictures before it's too late this year. But no big harm anyway. Autumn season is quite boring here, I'd say.
Experience: Goes from zero to none. This means, I'm used to delete around 80%+ of my so-called photos.
Enjoy the rest of them. I do hope it's the correct subforum for.
Large White (Pieris brassicae). Damn! Large White + Peacock = spammers of our meadows.
I was quite surprised how wary those Large Whites are.
Small White (Pieris rapae). What to say - common stuff hopelessly loving our cabbage beds.
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni). Not too plentiful, but present all the time from April to October. Very good actor - if you clutch him at wings, he always pretends to be dead.
*) Pale Clouded Yellow (Colias hyale). Most frequen visitor of the clover fields. I hate him! Great flyer cleverly using the wind, tireless, fidgety even when taking a nectar. My shooting "hit rate" = around 10%.
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui; Thistle Vanessa in Czech) is used to be an "everyday normal butterfly" here, especially now in hot summers of 21th century. Its migrations has been pretty strong this year and I found X imagos dead - knocked down by the cars.
Peacock (Inachis io). Great butterfly, very tame, but totally outbroken. So plentiful in certain biotopes, that they may even trammel when shooting other, more rare butterflies.
Araschnia levana, presumably an old male. I see this small butterfly is totally missing in the UK due to very eastern-centered range. Here it's #3 Nymphalidae butterfly after Peacock and Painted Lady. Pretty fly-about and hard-to-shot for me (had to delete 4 more photos of them). Shares its biotope mainly with Peacock and Brimstone.
Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia). Again, in a pretty dismal state. Probably my best success, but still such an ordinary butterfly. It's not too plentiful here in Silesia - don't know exactly why.
Meadow Brown (Maniola jutrina), the most common local Grayling along with Ringlet. Omnipresent, tame and poor flyer = often targed of the kiddies. Now they're slowly dying - I generally missed the time of most of Graylings (June, August).
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus). Probably. The only very common Blue butterfly in Silesia. I took a photo of Cupido argiades as well, but too crappy, those little things seems to be just too small...
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas). Not plentiful little butterfly at all, but very regular to see. It was a pretty dirty work to search the Small Copper out and it happened when I was looking for Large Copper, but it seems to be too late for Large Coppers. Normally, Large Coppers are far more frequent here than Small Coppers after 2000 (no, I'm not kidding).
And now something completely different - some day-active moths I accidentally frightened away from the grass when running after the real butterflies.
Relevant biotopes and funny stuff.
*) Not 100% sure about the determination, actually.
P.S. Better equipped friend of mine from the other side of the Czech Republic taking photos almost in the same time.
P. P. S. I was primarily looking for the Swallowtail that's gonna be more and more frequent again. Don' t giving up!
Date: 2009-08-31, 2009-09-01.
Equipment used: Kodak EasyShare C330; in other words, I just borrowed an ordinary digital camera and went to take some butterfly pictures before it's too late this year. But no big harm anyway. Autumn season is quite boring here, I'd say.
Experience: Goes from zero to none. This means, I'm used to delete around 80%+ of my so-called photos.
Enjoy the rest of them. I do hope it's the correct subforum for.
Large White (Pieris brassicae). Damn! Large White + Peacock = spammers of our meadows.
I was quite surprised how wary those Large Whites are.Small White (Pieris rapae). What to say - common stuff hopelessly loving our cabbage beds.
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni). Not too plentiful, but present all the time from April to October. Very good actor - if you clutch him at wings, he always pretends to be dead.
*) Pale Clouded Yellow (Colias hyale). Most frequen visitor of the clover fields. I hate him! Great flyer cleverly using the wind, tireless, fidgety even when taking a nectar. My shooting "hit rate" = around 10%.
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui; Thistle Vanessa in Czech
) is used to be an "everyday normal butterfly" here, especially now in hot summers of 21th century. Its migrations has been pretty strong this year and I found X imagos dead - knocked down by the cars.Peacock (Inachis io). Great butterfly, very tame, but totally outbroken. So plentiful in certain biotopes, that they may even trammel when shooting other, more rare butterflies.
Araschnia levana, presumably an old male. I see this small butterfly is totally missing in the UK due to very eastern-centered range. Here it's #3 Nymphalidae butterfly after Peacock and Painted Lady. Pretty fly-about and hard-to-shot for me (had to delete 4 more photos of them). Shares its biotope mainly with Peacock and Brimstone.
Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia). Again, in a pretty dismal state. Probably my best success, but still such an ordinary butterfly. It's not too plentiful here in Silesia - don't know exactly why.
Meadow Brown (Maniola jutrina), the most common local Grayling along with Ringlet. Omnipresent, tame and poor flyer = often targed of the kiddies. Now they're slowly dying - I generally missed the time of most of Graylings (June, August).
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus). Probably. The only very common Blue butterfly in Silesia. I took a photo of Cupido argiades as well, but too crappy, those little things seems to be just too small...
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas). Not plentiful little butterfly at all, but very regular to see. It was a pretty dirty work to search the Small Copper out and it happened when I was looking for Large Copper, but it seems to be too late for Large Coppers. Normally, Large Coppers are far more frequent here than Small Coppers after 2000 (no, I'm not kidding).
And now something completely different - some day-active moths I accidentally frightened away from the grass when running after the real butterflies.
Relevant biotopes and funny stuff.
*) Not 100% sure about the determination, actually.
P.S. Better equipped friend of mine from the other side of the Czech Republic taking photos almost in the same time.
P. P. S. I was primarily looking for the Swallowtail that's gonna be more and more frequent again. Don' t giving up!
