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A Painted Lady in the Thistle Patch
Jul. 31st, 2024 05:10 pm
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).
Well, actually there were four Painted Ladies present, making the thistle patch - usually home of the rather
Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina).
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).
Well, actually there were four Painted Ladies present, making the thistle patch - usually home of the rather
Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina).
July Woods
Jul. 30th, 2024 12:45 pmThe Met Office says the temperature might get up above 30 degrees C here later today. A day to hide from the sun. So I took the shaded path through the woods at B., in search of Silver-washed Fritillary butterflies.
In the July woods, the bracken head high. The air warm and still. Silent save for the drone of flies, the fluttering of chaffinches taking dust-baths in places where the path has dried.
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In the July woods, the bracken head high. The air warm and still. Silent save for the drone of flies, the fluttering of chaffinches taking dust-baths in places where the path has dried.
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Silver-studded Blue in flight
Jul. 2nd, 2023 12:13 pmMet up with C. for a walk by the marshes. Heather in flower along the tracks. Every time the sun came out, clouds of tiny Silver-studded Blue butterflies fluttering up.
A manual focus shot, because the auto-focus on my zoom lens is very slow and temperamental these days. Luckily Silver Studded Blues are quite weak flyers, hovering moth-like just above the heather, so it's possible to track them while adjusting the focus. (Though it turns out a shutter speed of 1/640s is a bit too slow to capture a sharp image of the wings).
A manual focus shot, because the auto-focus on my zoom lens is very slow and temperamental these days. Luckily Silver Studded Blues are quite weak flyers, hovering moth-like just above the heather, so it's possible to track them while adjusting the focus. (Though it turns out a shutter speed of 1/640s is a bit too slow to capture a sharp image of the wings).
Sea Fret, Durlston
Jun. 24th, 2023 03:42 pm
A walk up through the fields at Durlston to the coast. A sea fog blowing across the meadows, blessedly cool.
( Many pictures )
Skippers & Scabious
Jun. 18th, 2023 01:06 pm
Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon).
A little cooler today, but close and airless. Not a breath of wind, even on the hilltop. A layer of high white cloud like a sandwich-box lid over the world.
Took a walk along the Purbeck Hills, in search of summer things: butterflies & Bee Orchids.
( Underhill, overhill )
Summer's on the wing
Jun. 10th, 2023 01:41 pm
Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus).
A morning walk through the woods, by the marshes, and back across the heath.
( Things seen in shadow & in sunlight )
Badbury Rings in May again
May. 18th, 2023 12:54 pm
May is here. Time to go orchid-hunting on the ramparts of Badbury Rings Iron Age hillfort again...
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Overhill, underhill
Jun. 17th, 2022 03:42 pmWe are having a mini-heatwave (for a British value of the word 'heatwave'). Two days with the temperatures in the mid to high 20s C, before the rain returns in time for the weekend. Had planned to head down to the coast this morning, but the sky was cloudless, near white - the worst possible sky for landscape photography. So there was a change of plans en route, and a visit to Corfe Castle for a walk on the Purbeck Hills instead.
Corfe Castle. A warm wind making the Dog Daisies dance on the hilltop, and passing in ripples over the barley down in the valley.
( butterfly season )
Corfe Castle. A warm wind making the Dog Daisies dance on the hilltop, and passing in ripples over the barley down in the valley.
( butterfly season )
A cold breeze full of floating willow fluff. A heavy dew on the grass. Max and I went walking through the hay meadows.
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