The Lincolnshire Bird Club

I just noticed that last year under " My Garden" I put the wrong Grid Reference down it should have read SE 881 079 not SE 847 092. The grid ref I used is one of my sites on local patch about two miles from me, sorry about the mix-up.

Seen today April 20th:

Green-veined White - 1
Small Tortoiseshell - 1

Max

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May 7th:

Holly Blue - 1f [seen on Cotoneaster]
Small Tortoiseshell - 1 [seen on Bluebell leaves]
Speckled Wood - 1 [seen on Forget-me-Not]
Green-vein White - 2

John

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May 30th:

Small Tortioseshell - 2
Speckled Wood - 2
Holly Blue - 1
Green-veined White - 2

John

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June 29th

Red Admiral on the Johnson's Blue Geranium.

John

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Hi Max,
It's nice to know that your Red Admiral has got good taste and didn't choose any old and common Geranium.
I haven't had Red Admiral in the garden yet, but I did have a Ringlet a few days ago.
Happy butterflying.

Regards,

Freddy

Red Admiral in my garden this morning, first one of the year for me. Also had Painted Lady yesterday


Mandy

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Coincidence! Coincidence!
Today at 4.10pm precisely a Red Admiral waltzed over our garden hedge and settled on a fence panel.
Now we wait for the Gatekeeper to arrive.

Regards,

Freddy

Hi Freddy,

Next to the geranium is half a melon so it maybe killed two birds with one stone lol

The Buddleahs should be in flower within the next week!

Cheers

Max

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Buddleahs are in flower but not seen anything on the back garden ones yet, with the three Whites on the front garden ones.

July 15th:

Green-vein White - 1
Small White - 1
Large White - 1
Speckled Wood - 1 [ on the Photinia]
Small Tortoiseshell - 1

July 16th:

Comma - 1 [ on gravel]
Small Tortoiseshell - 1 [ on gravel ]
Large White - 1 [Buddleah]
Small White - 2 [ Buddleah]
Green-vein White - 1 [Buddleah]

July 18th:

Small White - 2
Green-vein White - 1
Large White - 3 [ on Magnolia ]

Hoping for Gatekeeper soooooooooon.

Regards

Max

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July 20th:

Comma - 1
Small Tortioseshell - 1

July 22nd:

Painted Lady - 1
Small White - 1
Large White - 1
Small Tortoiseshell - 3

July 23rd: Spent most of day looking for the elusive Gatekeeper BUT no luck on that front but no shortage of others.

Painted Lady - 3 cracking specimens, best I've seen this year.
Small White - 3
Large White - 8
Green-vein White - 1
Peacock - 1
Small Tortioseshell - 5
Speckled Wood - 2

High above garden had the neighbourhood Sprawk patrolling plus a few Swifts and House Martins. No shortage of Hover Flies and Bees. The Speckled Wood was on the Photinia, Holly and Burdock whereas the rest were flitting between the Buddleahs, Privet, Ivy and the paths. A good day!

Regards

John

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July 24th:

Another good day, thought I'd got the Gatekeeper but it was a Meadow Brown which is still good for the garden.

Painted Lady - 4
Small Tortoiseshell - 7
Small White - 4
Large White - 6
Peacock - 2
Red Admiral - 1
Meadow Brown - 1

Regards

John

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Just a thought, Max :

We seek him here
We seek him there
We seek him everywhere
Is he on Photinia?
Is he on Zinnia?
What? It's time for my dinnia
Oh! That damned elusive GATEKEEPERe !

PS - any luck yet?

LOL A poet as well! LOL I've been known to pen a few but not on here.

Still no sign of the darned thing!

Here are the latest sightings:

JULY 25th:

Comma - 1
Peacock - 4
Painted Lady - 3
Small White - 5
Large White - 5
Small T/shell - 3
Green-vein White - 5

JULY 27th:

Painted Lady - 2
Peacock - 3
Small White - 2
Large White - 6

JULY 28th:

Comma - 1 [ on Magnolia]
Painted Lady - 6
Peacock - 8
Large White - 8
Small White - 7
One unidentified Blue passing through.
Plus one dragon doing same.

Not complaining about the lack of butterflies having an average of 25 to 30 every day when the weather is fine, but it would be good to see the 'keeper as it comes nearly every year.

Regards

Max

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JULY 31st:

Peacock - 13
Red Admiral - 1
Small Tortoiseshell - 2
Painted Lady - 16
Small White - 5
Large White - 7
And a possible 'keeper but not a definate sighting as it was too far away, darn it.

In the few years I've been watching butterflies I've never seen that total of Painted Lady anywhere! The buddleah behind garage isn't very big but it was covered in butterflies it was fabulous to sit and watch them, oddly the other three buddleahs hardly had anything on them, two of which are bigger and the other smaller.

I'm enjoying my period of confinement while these beautiful creatures keep visiting lol........

Regards

John

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AUGUST 2nd:

Painted Lady - 8
Peacock - 7
Small T/shell - 4
Large White - 6
Small White - 3

AUGUST 3rd:

Painted Lady - 12
Peacock - 22
Small T/shell - 4
Large White - 15
Small White - 8
Green-vein White - 3
Red Admiral - 1
Comma - 1
Speckled Wood - 1

Sixty-seven is a record in the garden, all but one the S.Wood were on the four Buddleias and counted these around midday!

Also the Sprawk gave close up views as it passed over the garden plus quite a few House Martin and the odd Swift.

What a brilliant day!

Regards

John

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