RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2019 No butterflies seen here in the middle of nowhere Lincolnshire but I have heard bees buzzing and had a hare running around the paddock while I was working today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted February 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: No butterflies seen here in the middle of nowhere Lincolnshire but I have heard bees buzzing and had a hare running around the paddock while I was working today. We are really looking forward to seeing our family of hares in the field opposite. Always great fun to watch. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friscopete Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Saw a Brimstone a couple of weeks ago at in our garden in Norfolk and again at Ranworth .Just seen another one . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Not a butterfly but I did find a rather befuddled-looking seven-spot ladybird out for a stroll across my study window the other day. ~11°C in Edinburgh so not as tropical you lucky people darn sarf. Am a little concerned about the poor thing if we do get a few more frosts before spring is properly sprung up here. In other seasonal news: I counted NINE frogs in our garden pond last night. Not bad considering it was demolished and rebuilt - bigger - over the winter, and only has very sparse planting at the moment. It seems you can't buy aquatics until at least April. That probably loses us a star in whatever froggy equivalent of Tripadvisor they use: "Recently refurbished to a high standard but a little lacking in character. Ribbit." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Chris Chewter Posted February 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2019 In this unseasonably warm weather, I wasn't too surprised to happen across this Tortoise shell sunning itself in the car park of the school I was surveying near Northampton. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Not butterflies, but quite surprised to see fields of rapeseed in flower between Peterborough and Grantham. Rather earlier than normal I think, don't recall seeing it much before early May before? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) The rape is just coming out near my house on the somewhat less protected coast of Norfolk. On 26/02/2019 at 17:11, friscopete said: Saw a Brimstone a couple of weeks ago at in our garden in Norfolk and again at Ranworth .Just seen another one . I didn't know Jeremy had been down on Ranworth sailing Brimstone yet this year. Yare and Bure One Design (AKA White boats) all named after Butterflys or Moths, Number 36 , is Brimstone, and may normally be seen sailing at Horning. Horning SC should be sailing past Ranworth Dyke on a down river race (to Thurne) next Sunday Around 10:00 to 10:30 weather permitting.. Edited March 28, 2019 by TheQ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) Ah found one with Jeremy .. the start of the 30th May 2015 3 Rivers Race at approximately 11:00:30.. heading off down to go past Ranworth from Horning.. Edited March 28, 2019 by TheQ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2019 First tortoiseshell of the year for me sunning himself in Hereford... just over the hedge from the diesel sidings! Phil 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2019 On 26/02/2019 at 17:11, friscopete said: Saw a Brimstone a couple of weeks ago at in our garden in Norfolk and again at Ranworth .Just seen another one . And another for me today travelling back from Hereford.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friscopete Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 We saw another Brimstone at Ranworth again .The Church is a good place for flutterbyes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) Tortoiseshell is white boat number 21 sailed by Phil or Liz no not that Phil or Liz although Anne has sailed one and did quite well.. I'll flutter off now or I'll be annoying you.... Edited March 28, 2019 by TheQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 I saw my first Comma on Tuesday, and a couple of Orange Tips yesterday so things here are looking promising. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 29, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2019 And first blue of the year today in Cheltenham.... he didn’t stop to say hello but odds on a holly blue this early Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Searle Posted April 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2019 (edited) A holly blue in the garden today: Cheers, Dave Edited April 22, 2019 by Dave Searle 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 A few Orange tips, Peacocks and Tortoiseshells spotted in the cooler north this warm weekend, not sure if I've seen a Comma this far north. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Anyone recognise these? There seems to be rather a lot of them in this bit of hedge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 It's a while since I posted any butterfly pics here so how about these? I spent the first two weeks of June in Scotland - my photo targets were largely landscapes but I also hoped to see a real Scottish rarity - the chequered skipper. I visited two reserves, Glenborrowdale and Alt Mhuic, and was lucky at both in getting enough sunshine to coax the little blighters out. Possibly the prettiest skipper, unfortunately now confined to Western Scotland. Chaz 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 While I was at the two Scottish reserves looking for chequered skippers I also found... ...pearl-bordered fritillaries - such a nice bonus! Chaz 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Lovely photo's Chaz, I've not seen many Butterflies so far this year, is it still a bit early? Seen quite a few of these though, not sure if they are butterfly caterpillars? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Blue and red spots? then they are gypsy-moth caterpillars, and you can say goodbye to whatever tree or shrub they are feeding on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 6 hours ago, sb67 said: Lovely photo's Chaz, I've not seen many Butterflies so far this year, is it still a bit early? Seen quite a few of these though, not sure if they are butterfly caterpillars? Steve. No Steve, it's not too early - some species have been and gone! Of course the pretty dreadful weather through most of June hasn't helped. Let us hope that things are on the up and we have a warm sunny July. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted June 29, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2019 Plenty around yesterday on The Brocken in Germany.... this tortoiseshell obligingly posed on the stonecrop growing in the ballast 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetmorgan Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Been a long while I've posted anything on the forum, especially on this thread but I came across this butterfly this evening while giving some of the garden a water and it hid in the depths of a Hypericum. Not sure what variety it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 6, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2019 Hmm - its being coy and hiding some spots but I think its a Ringlet https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/ringlet But not totally sure! We went out to Croome near Pershore yesterday - never seen so many Meadow Browns, and also a surprise in that there were a good number of marbled whites too Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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