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31-05-2011, 06:55 PM
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Absolutely cracking weekend. Big thanks to Tim and Steve for organising it and guiding us round. |
31-05-2011, 09:03 PM
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| | | Re: Priory Water 2011
Last but by no means least!
Have tried to upload photos to the Gallery and the library, but seem to have a problem. Shame, cos my piccy of the snake is a goodun.  Will keep trying.
What a lovely way to spend a weekend. Great variety of subjects on offer, nice people, and a blindingly good curry!
Many thanks Steve and Tim for the work you put into the visit. You can see by the messages that have been posted, that your efforts are greatly appreciated by all.
And Boddie.....comments like the one you made in the Indian restaurant, will stay with me forever. A few hundred years ago, you'd have been on a one-way trip to The Tower!!! 
Chris. |
31-05-2011, 10:02 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
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Originally Posted by jerryh  My Sunday wasn't so good, as I had my laptop stolen while I was at Wicken  | That's bad news Jerry. What a lousy end to a good weekend. Quote:
Originally Posted by jerryh The better news is that the PC is covered by insurance, and I have a full data backup from Saturday night, so (touch wood) I won't have lost anything. | At least that is some consolation for having it stolen. Hopefully you will even get a better laptop than your old one. Quote:
Originally Posted by jerryh I am now trying to work out if and how my security may have been compromised with data that was on the machine. | That is definitely the bad part of having it stolen. Hopefully your security hasn't been compromised.
Great to meet you again Jerry. hopefully it won't be too long before we link up at another meet.
John |
31-05-2011, 10:10 PM
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My final few photos from the weekend. Unfortunately some of the images weren't as good on the PC as they looked on my camera's screen so these shown below (added to those I linked earlier to the thread) are all I managed as keepers.
White-legged Damselfly 
male Azure Damselfly 
Immature Male Red-eyed Damselfly 
Volucella pellucens 
Cheilosia illustrata 
Lesser Marsh Grasshopper 
Scorpion Fly 
Rhogogaster? Sawfly 
John |
31-05-2011, 10:51 PM
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Thank You Hob-Nob---Appreciated. |
31-05-2011, 11:08 PM
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First of all many thanks to Steve for organising the event and hosting it. My part was easy, I just cut the grass. Thankyou all for your kind comments, it is a pleasure for us to show off the reserve as we are very proud of it. A special thanks to Adam for all his hard work identifying the micros, it would have took us days.
Really sorry to hear about your misfortune Jerry, hope it all works out.
Hopefully next year we can do it again later in the year when it is warmer and all the dragons are on the wing, I expect only Pauline will not be happy to hear this, we will get some benches and fridges dotted round for the day.
Finally thankyou all for coming and hope to see you all again soon
Tim |
01-06-2011, 06:58 AM
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| | | Re: Priory Water 2011
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Originally Posted by Hobjob The opaque eyed snake was Saturday (and only a few of us saw it) - I think Pauline's was a Sunday snake! | Pauline's photo was indeed the Sunday snake Dave.
We saw it on the afternoon ramble while you were back at the clubhouse.
We discussed the cloudy eye whilst horizontal! 
In all of my pics, it has come out a cloudy blue colour.
It was my first time seeing a snake of that size in the wild.
I've only ever seen an Adder before! 
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01-06-2011, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by The_Moaner Thank You Hob-Nob---Appreciated. | Well, that takes the biscuit!
HOLD EVERYTHING! (Screech of brakes) Quote:
Originally Posted by pressld2 With grateful thanks to Chris (Fauna) it looks like Cernuella virgata is a good bet. Tricky blighters though, as they're highly variable in both size and patterning. | Scrub that - it's Monacha cantiana. My key led me to that species as a possibility but I discounted it due to the distribution map in my book showing it as restricted to Kent. I keep forgetting that my book is 30 years old and things change. It's now fairly widespread across England and quite common in Leicestershire. Thanks again to Chris for clearing the confusion.
Dave P.
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01-06-2011, 11:27 AM
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This is the last moth to fall to being identified from the weekend. A Tortrix moth - Epinotia bilunana - a lifer for me. Thanks to Roundwood123 
Cheers,
Adam |
01-06-2011, 12:09 PM
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| | | Re: Priory Water 2011
My list of moths for the weekend is as follows.
Macro Moths
HEPIALIDAE
Common Swift
LASIOCAMPIDAE
Drinker Moth
DREPANIDAE
Pebble Hook-tip
THYATIRIDAE
Figure of Eighty
GEOMETRIDAE
Silver-ground Carpet
Common Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Green Carpet
Slender Pug
Green Pug
Common Pug
Latticed Heath
Brimstone Moth
Common White Wave
Clouded Silver
SPHINGIDAE
Elephant Hawkmoth
NOTODONTIDAE
Pebble Prominent
Coxcomb Prominent
Buff-tip
White Ermine
NOCTUIDAE
Turnip Moth
Heart and Dart
Shuttle-shaped Dart
Flame
Flame Shoulder
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Common Wainscot
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Marbled Beauty
Brown Rustic
Dark Arches
Clouded-bordered Brindle
Rustic Shoulder-knot
Oligia sp. Marbled Minor agg
Middle-barred Minor
Common Rustic
Uncertain
Silver Y
Straw Dot
Snout
Micro Moths
OECOPHORIDAE
White-shouldered House Moth
GELECHIIDAE
Metzneria metzneriella
CRAMBIDAE
Chrysoteuchia culmella
Crambus lathoniellus
Garden Pebble
TORTRICIDAE
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Epiblemea cynosbatella
Epiblema trimaculana
Hedya pruniana
Agapeta hamana
Aethes smeathmanniana
Timothy Tortrix
Grey Tortrix
Lathronympha strigana
Light Brown Apple Moth
Epinotia bilunana
55 SPECIES
Anyone want to add any more?
Cheers,
Adam  | | | |
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