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25-05-2009, 12:22 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006
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I have put a few pictures up on the UK Butterflies site under the gardening section which I took this afternoon. They were amazing to see the pictures just don't do them justice. It is the first time I wished I could swap my macro lense for a wide angle to fit them all in.
They were just about on every conceiveable surface in my garden; nectaring on flowers, sitting on gravel, sitting on the fence, sitting on the shrubs, spiralling up into the sky in dogfights. I've never seen anything like it before. I do flattery myself that the reason they dropped in rather than pass over was because I have butterfly friendly nectar plants for them to feed on.
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25-05-2009, 01:55 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harpenden, Herts
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Loads in Herts, saw 5 on my dog walk this morning. Clouded Yellows also reported. |
25-05-2009, 05:28 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: New Forest
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spent a couple of hours in the new forest and have seen 70+ today
amazing to see so many  |
25-05-2009, 05:47 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Gone!
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Hundreds passing through Huntingdonshire (Paxton Pits) yesterday, a fabulous sight - but where are they all going  |
25-05-2009, 05:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
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| | | Re: Painted Ladies
They reach my garden/village/ town en masse today!!
They are everywhere...even driving through the town centre they were flapping away in front of my car!....love it.
Saw my first Brimstone Butterfly in the garden today too!
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25-05-2009, 05:50 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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| | | Re: Painted Ladies
Painted Ladies passing over our garden in Dorchester today - rate of 1 per minute travelling East to West.
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25-05-2009, 06:15 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Earth - I think
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First one today - finally after a complete failure to see one last year. Plenty of Diamond-back moths and Silver Y's arriving too. |
25-05-2009, 06:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
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Had one in the garden here this afternoon, the first time I've seen one here I think.
Very jealous of those of you who've seen them en masse! |
25-05-2009, 06:21 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: East Harling, Norfolk
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| | | Re: Painted Ladies
I saw a few today, they fly so fast! 
Sadly, the last one I saw I had to kill as it was writhing around in a terrible way after being struck by a car  |
25-05-2009, 06:33 PM
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| | | Re: Painted Ladies
This afternoon we spent a couple of hours at a local unused golf course in Northolt where there are some good ponds + generally good habitat. I counted c120 Painted Ladies, many flying steadily north, but unlike yesterday, many nectaring. Red Clover seemed a favourite with many on each clump- one plant had 7 Painted Ladies on it as well as lots of Common blues around.
Also 3 Silver-Ys another migrant species seen.
A male Red-veined Darter has been recorded + photographed at nearby Brent Reservoir by one of the regular birders- good looking individual!
It's all kicking off after 2 relatively migrant free years!  | | | |
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