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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    My first wall of the year at the east end of the main lagoon at Cantley Beet Factory Sunday 18 August TG392024
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Holt Lowes and Country Park Grayling on the Lowes First silver-washed fritillary by pond at country park. Possibly four more males from the curved path plus a duller female A few white admirals and brimstones with them. At the top of Edgefield hill another male silver-washed fritillary plus...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Friday 19 July As I waited at the traffic lights on the Cromer Road at the Boundary / Norwich ring road, a butterfly flew low between the two lanes of cars. Fluttered close to and almost landed on my windscreen. To my surprise it was a white admiral. TG218117
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Ringland Hills TG1212 A walk along the track west from Ringland Hills and back along roads produced some good butterflies in the sunshine. Many meadow browns, including a pair in cop with a second male trying to join the pair but unable to get a look in... Small tort, ringlet, unidentified...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Two holly blues south and west of the railway bridge on Martineau Lane after the road forks off Norwich ring road, mid afternoon.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Two commas make a full stop? Both on the same bramble near the telephone wires along the top path at Whitlingham today.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    My first painted lady of 2012 in Sprowston this afternoon, west of the Wroxham Road. Unexpected in a suburban back street!
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Salthouse beach car park provides free access to the beach so bound to be crowded. I started off at Haddiscoe (railway) station, half a mile down a dead end off the Yarmouth Beccles Road. A buddleia by the station platform had 20+ peacocks on it and 10 or so small torts with small numbers of...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Upton Fen Good insects on a long walk at Upton Fen this afternoon. At far end (from car park) first walls of the year. With nettles close by a good number of peacocks there too.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    My first blue sp of August and first brown argus of the year By the flower border at the Doctor's Garden along the track by the railway, Strumpshaw, TG339070 Only able to take the attached single shot. No blue on upper side, prominent scent gland marks. Underside seen - silvery with no spots...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Arrived at Mousehold Zaks just before 11am. Sun shining on elms and a white-letter hairstreak lands high in canopy of tree above seat. The hairstreak flies to the next tree in a longer sunny interval, joined by a second insect. One flies off high past the holm oak in the car park and lost to...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Mousehold Zaks White-letter hairstreak during short sunny interval this afternoon Near seat, sign and road
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Holt Country Park Often cloudy but sunny intervals enabled target species to be seen. Headed down straight path towards pond from car park and white admiral there. By the time I headed back up the curving path the sun had gone in and all butterflies vanished. After a while a silver-washed...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Edited the reference to the oak eggar out, when I realised I had misread the pictures and labels. :eek!: The Butterflies of Great Britain by Thomas and Lewington has an illustration on page 265 showing how meadow browns escape attack by hiding forewing behind hindwing and so concealing eye-spot.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    agreed
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    On the BBC Breakfast News Thursday 12 July, there was a plug for the upcoming Butterfly Conservation Big Butterfly Count survey, starting this Saturday 14 July. Presenter said "can you tell the difference between marbled white and large skipper?" Photos of both shown. Other pictures sent in...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    No swallowtails at Strumpshaw mid afternoon but three large whites plus red admirals, ringlets and meadow browns. Did not see any large whites in June at all.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Had time this week to do a couple of botanical and butterfly surveys in single kilometre squares, walking along public footpaths A few meadow browns and ringlets about. Large skipper in one of the two squares. No blues. A single small white in both squares the only white seen.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Upton Fen A few large skippers, out at last Many ringlets and meadow browns A few red admirals One washed out (perhaps literally!) peacock One small white sped close by (not many whites about!) No swallowtails
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    The only butterfly I saw at Strumshaw last Saturday was a male brimstone in the overflow car park. Two tetrads Fifers Lane Norwich TG2012 could not get in work's side gate early am. Rode bike along grass inside hedge to main entrance and put up a meadow brown - "year tick" TG2212 walked around...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Less information has come out of Winterton than other places for many years. What upset residents the most was a twitch in Winterton village for a rose-coloured starling in 2006. The bird was in poor health and had two well-fed ticks on its body. Twitchers were blamed for that birds demise.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Yes James you are right. Chequered skipper at Glasdrum NNR between Oban and Fort William on the west coast of Scotland. A transect is walked at this reserve under the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Glasdrum is, as far as I know, no longer a site where marsh fritillary can be found. I saw...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Wot marsh fritillaries? Did not see any marsh frits at a site where they have occurred but saw these instead.
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    White is the colour At Thorpe Marshes and Whitlingham today the majority of the butterflies I saw were orange tips. The others were green-veined whites with one female brimstone at the woods above Whitlingham Lane. No surprise, really, given temperatures in the past few days, that I did not...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Peacocks and brimstones from Barton Broad board walk at lunch time. Brimstones now out, hadn't seen any before the weekend just gone. Only seen males so far. Peacocks in far better numbers than during crash in Norfolk population.
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