Wednesday 27 June 2018

The butterflies are out!

Hello

Eric Graham visited the Titchmarsh reserve at Thrapston today and was able to record common warblers and plenty of common butterflies and dragonflies. He went on to Fermyn Wood for the butterflies and encountered eight Purple Emperors, two White Admirals, two Silver-washed Fritillaries, Purple Hairstreak and Painted Lady.

I'm just in from seven days in Norway, with brief explorations of the Lofoten and Vesteralen Islands. Cold, very windy and wet up there but we managed just a few brief periods of pleasant weather, a far cry from the temperatures here currently. These Norwegian Islands (north of the Arctic Circle) can probably boast some of the best scenery in the world with truly epic mountains surrounded with low cloud, still plenty of snow, huge vistas and extensive fjords. This is also home to the greatest concentration of White-tailed (Sea) Eagles in the world and I saw them consecutively for seven days (with fifteen in one day)! Hopefully I will have time to process some images later in the week...

Regards

Neil M



Purple Emperor.

Silver-washed Fritillary.

Painted Lady.

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