Showing posts with label skipper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skipper. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2018

19/07/2018 A few more photos from the week away.

Maximum temperature today 31C, minimum 16C.  Dry; 13 km/h North-westerly winds with up to 26 km/h gusts.

As always I am not certain of my ID, if anyone can help out I am always appreciative.
Driving down to Bergerac there were fields and fields of fruit trees. I only thought of taking a photo when we got near the end!

Ghost sign - Valentine les belles peintures. It seems this was (is?) a type of paint.

Walking through the forest there was a lot of this plant.  I think it maybe broomrape but I am not sure.

Chicory,

Possibly Giant Bellflower.

Blue Featherleg or White-legged Damselfly (Platycnemis pennipes).

I think this may be a skimmer dragonfly but I am not even sure of that!

Think this is same as above!

There were a lot of fish in the dam but what I know about fish types is dangerous, they were quite big.  About 0.6 meter (2 Foot)

Peacock butterfly (Inachis io)

Skippers are a family, Hesperiidae, of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) I am not sure which skipper this is.

Speckled Wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria).

As above.

Just a spider web, but so much work goes into this creation.



N.B. My bird blog is updated  HERE 


Part 17 of the birds seen in Africa.

Monday, August 21, 2017

21/08/2017 A walk around the garden this afternoon, we were late home, and I chased two cats from the flower bed watching the birds Grrrrr.

Maximum temperature 29C, minimum 13C.   14 km/h NE wind with 30 km/h gusts.  Dry.
Mrs Sparrow, hope she is keeping a close watch out for those pesky cats...

as above.

Garlic chives and bug.

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Jersey Tiger Moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria)...

As above showing some of the colour of its under-wings.

 Full shot of the underneath of the moth. Quite beautiful.

Skipper but not certain which one. Possibly one of the Grizzled Skippers but I do not know which one.

Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas)

Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)

Last but not least a common wall lizard that thinks I cannot see it in the shade!
(Podarcis muralis)

Monday, July 20, 2015

Sunday, July 19, 2015