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On The Hunt for Rare Butterflies

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Jun 302013

During this time of the year there are usually a number of good species of Butterfly that are on the wing for a few weeks. Most butterflies are late emerging this year, mainly due to the cold spring, in fact some species are around 3 -4 weeks late. The recent warm weather has certainly helped but these fragile creatures are certainly in short supply so far this year. After a disasterous year for butterflies during 2012, they can ill afford another one.. Along with my good friends Anita & Elliott, we decided to target Wood White and Black Hairstreak to-day. Both were seen exceptionally well […]

A Dippidy Doodah Day

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Nov 182012

Missed the Hoodie – drat… but a new tick – an Ivy Bee – NOT – Miss Identified !! You can't win em all, as they say. We missed out today (18th Nov) on the Hooded Merganser at Pagham Harbour, apparently seen to fly off late afternoon on Saturday 17th November. Well it had done this before, so we saw no reason to think it had gone or worse, may be the local Peregrine took it, well, we will never know. One of the most interesting observations at Pagham was a small colony of Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae). I'd not […]

A week on the island of Madeira – 27th August 2012

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Sep 082012

A week on the island of Madeira - 27th August 2012

A week on Madeira to re-charge the batteries and to relax and take things easy for a few days. Not so easy when the hotel gardens were full of Monarch Butterflies and two species of Blue Butterflies that were incredibly difficult to photograph. I had also lined up 2 afternoon seabird and Dolphin trips to try and get a couple of sea bird lifers. I had booked the Dolphin trips from the UK through Portugal Sport and Adventure (www.portugal-sport-and-adventure.com) and Alexandra Cleaton was extremely helpful in the organisation process. She also managed to get me on an afternoon trip with Madeira Wind Birds(www.madeirawindbirds.com) which […]

Finally – the Last One! – 28th July 2012

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Jul 282012

Finally - the Last One! - 28th July 2012

My quest to photograph all the resident breeding British Butterflies finally came to an end this afternoon. Holly Blue was photographed along a local Nature Trail in Stretton, Staffordshire, called the “Jinny Trail”. During the past week I was sure that second generation Holly Blue would emerge in the warm sunshine. Sure enough, Anita & Elliott Staley managed to find one along the “Jinny” in mid-week. Panic set-in and I searched on several days at various local spots, near to home but without success. So this afternoon in the warm sunshine the search began along the “Jinny”, at least I […]

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