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Sunday, August 5th 2012

These photographs were taken by Tim Randall (a particpant of the Macro Photography Course yesterday) as he wandered around the reserve.

Speckled Wood sightings have been rare this summer.  This one sat on the leaf long enough for several people to take a photgraph.

Speckled Wood butterfly

Ringlets on the other hand, have been recorded in numbers.  When John did the butterfly transect a fortnight ago he had to double check his figures, as he could not believe that he had actually counted 91 of them!

Ringlet Butterfly on Ragwort

Yesterday it was mentioned that a Common Darter had posed for photographs on the gate and this close up shows its large eyes and the hairs covering its thorax. 

Common Darter's head

(1) Comments:

Tim Randall responded on 5th Aug 2012 with...

I support Elizabeth’s comment of yesterday, ‘Thank you Richard.’ I hope that we produced some photographs worthy of your training.

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