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22-08-2007, 08:10 PM
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| | | A glorious afternoon outing.
Before I start, let me apologise for those of you suffering the bad weather today. We've had our fair share recently, but this afternoon the weather cleared, leaving it bright and windy. We decided to go out for a few hours to one of our favourite local sites, that's Naturscape Wild Flower Farm at Langor Notts. This site is really superb, offering some exceptional sighting opportunities of a large variety of Dragonflies, Damselflies and Butterflies. The site is small, with a tiny pond that at first sight you'd think was not much good, boy would that idea prove to be wrong!
Here's some of the shots I got today, all within a small field near the pond.
Firstly Common Darters with a varity of colours:       
Then we saw loads of Southern Hawkers, resting:    
Migrant Hawker: 
Back toward the Cafe, and on one bush were these Butterflies:   
There were loads of them on these bushes, and extremely approachable!
What an amazing couple of hours! I've plenty more images I took but I think this gets over the superb variety at that site.  |
22-08-2007, 08:16 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Edge of the New Forest, Hampshire
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Excellent pics Graham.
Glad you had a good day, don't think many did (weather-wise). |
22-08-2007, 08:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mid Glamorgan South Wales
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Fab pics glsammy, I see you made the most of the sunshine
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22-08-2007, 08:55 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Small North Lincolnshire village
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Some great shots of the Darters Graham showing how variable the colours can be and some superb Hawker shots as well. Just goes to show you don't need a vast area to see a wide range of species.
Roger |
22-08-2007, 09:05 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Berkshire
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Fantastic photos, Graham - as usual!
Can you send some of your weather our way?
Jenny |
22-08-2007, 09:12 PM
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Excellent set of shots there Graham, and an impressive array of Darter colour variations 
Your Hawker shots have pushed me into another foray out tomorrow,although I saw quite a few today i didnt manage any decent shots at all.Not gonna let them beat me lol
Mark H |
23-08-2007, 04:59 AM
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
What a smashing set of shots Graham-I'm all inspired now!
Please, please, please let us have sun at Thursley today! Yes-we're going back for another fix of the place.
Jules
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23-08-2007, 05:04 AM
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Lovely photos- I'm envious of those sightings- nothing rare, but the weather around London has been so miserable- we've had no sunshine since last week, just wind, drizzle + rain, like early November. Can't remember the last insect I saw! |
23-08-2007, 07:14 AM
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Lovely pics Graham - you have at least brightened up our miserable day. THANK-YOU! |
23-08-2007, 07:22 PM
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| | | Re: A glorious afternoon outing.
Graham
The sun shines on the righteous. Lovely shots and all in such a small area.
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