Monday 2 September 2013

A Sad Day Indeed!

The last day of the holidays today saw me visit a few places and one of these was Lydden Downs near Dover where I hoped to catch up with the Adonis Blue butterfly. I arrived early afternoon in lovely sunshine but quite a breeze. The slopes were alive with butterflies with hundreds of Meadow Brown seen and also seen were good numbers of Adonis Blue which provided me with a few photo opportunities. The colours on these are fantastic and the photos really do not show how brilliant the blue is on these butterflies. I also saw a few Chalkhill Blue, lots of Brown Argus and Common Blue, 3 Clouded Yellow, 2 Silver spotted Skipper and 3 Small Heath. Later in the day I made a visit to Reculver where I managed to find 10 Willow Emerald Damselfly which provided yet more action for the camera. As I'm back to work tomorrow and how bad I feel about it, I will post some of these shots throughout the week as I will probably not get out due to the horrible work thing.






Adonis Blue

6 comments:

  1. A real sickener having to go back to work Marc, its been a cracking six weeks of wildlifing though mate :-)

    You can see the blue is a slightly different shade in your images Marc, lovely colour :-)

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  2. Beautiful shots Marc, we don't get over here.

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  3. Must be really gutty going back to work after six weeks holiday in the summer, how do people get by on just four.

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  4. Some lovely Adonis Marc, it may be tough going back but thats because you've had a great break with some super finds.

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  5. Gorgeous shots, Marc! The blue is stunning!

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