Interesting item in today's Nature's Calender email from the Woodland Trust: http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/findings/newbutterfly.htm Took a while to put...
Hi Folks, Below is an email I received re a Small Pearl project. I've replied with information and an offer to meet for id practice, but I have no experience ...
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Finally caught up with Speckled Wood on a brief visit to Rame yesterday but no other butterflies at all! Dave ... From:...
On a trip to Zennor today in over four hours of walking I managed nil butterflies. Thought there may have been Speckled Wood somewhere such as Trevail Valley....
Below is a copy of an email I recently received. I can help with identification but have little experience of transects. Can anyone help? The University...
Hi John . I live on Menorca now, but for many years I lived in Tresillian just opposite the little lane which leads to St Clements. We used to walk right...
Had first Orange-tip yesterday - 4 April 2009 - at Lower Polmorla, SW975643. Also seen again today as well as Holly Blue. Had Orange-tip in March 1983 in same...
Hi one and all. Being a long time member of the branch, and a long time "lurker" on this group, I thought it was, since I have finally managed to move to ...
Hi Denise, Perhaps you could let us know when Clouded Yellow, Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Humming-bird Hawk-moth start to appear in numbers and if they look...
Will do best. Denist
Hi Denise, Perhaps you could let us know when Clouded Yellow, Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Humming-bird Hawk-moth start to appear in...
Welcome to the group Andrew. Still a cold breeze but sheltered on parts of Marazion Marsh (SW5131) but all I saw was two Speckled Woods. A group of birders on...
Hi, migrantmad2 75% cloud cover and chill breeze meant the woodlands at Pontsmill,N. were 'quiet' this morning (apart from the bird-song!). I did see 4 x...
Hi, migrantmad2 Only 11degsC ambient temp. and a 'wicked' wind-chill making it more like 8/9degsC! Hence the few records come from the Breney Common perimeter...
Hi, migrantmad2 Again 80% of records from Pontsmill (not Sp.Woods). Amb. temperature c.14degsC, but AGAIN wind-chill made it feel more like 12degsC. However,...
Cheers Roger, I've just come back from a morning run around Penzance, and in perfect running weather not one butterfly was seen. Still a chilly wind down...
Hi, migrantmad2 Very warm (up to 17degsC?), lesser wind-chill. Should have been excellent,but not quite up to expectation. Stopped near home at 'Sp.Wood' alley...
Painted Ladies have been seen at Braunton Burrows and Dorset. I had just the one butterfly, a Speckled Wood at St. Erth Railway Station. None in the Tyacks...
Hi Group I know not firsts for others but firsts of year at Buryas Bridge near Penzance, 1 x Holly Blue and 1 x Speckled Wood in garden. One Holly Blue,...
Hi, migrantmad2 Well, haze and cloud all day, not a day for butterflies. You can tell what the weather was like from the small species list given ! Totals for...
Hi, migrantmad2 Only sun (I found) was late afternoon at Par. Again a reflection of the poor weather in the (short!) species list ! Total: 1 x G.V.White; 1 x...
Hi, No sun to speak of, until 14.00hrs, bit late to get anywhere. However totals for 2 sites (incl.Pontsmill !) were as follows: (Sp.Wood Alley NOT visited!) 2...
Hi folks, I've just updated the file after all the recent actitivy. A further Painted Lady was seen Carn Les Boel (between Porthgwarra and Land's End) last...
Hi, migrantmad2 Persistent cloud ('cept for a sun during G.Prix practice!) meant I just visited Sp.Wood alley and saw just 4 x Sm.Whites and 12+, Sp.Woods !...
Perhaps you should email Natural England to let them know Roger giving a grid reference. Don't suppose you took any number plates of vans and trailers large...
Hi Folks Hill topping- Saw my first Painted Lady this year at the top of Carn Brea near Camborne this Friday 17th April also couple of courting red adds and...