Chris Rowland

Photographer and all round wildlife enthusiast.
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@YogiBear60 @NatureofDorset @SightingDOR @DorsetWildlife Excellent shot Paul!!👍

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I found this young emperor moth out on the Dorset heathland at the weekend. It had just emerged and was starting to pump out his wings.
I stayed with it for about 1 1/2hrs taking shots at various stages before it was finally ready to fly off. @DWTWeyPort @savebutterflies

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Just been told that they helped someone in Weymouth at 10.30…I’m in Weymouth!!! Why have they not contacted me as well!!! Ridiculous!!!🤬🤬 Don’t ever use them!! @Dorsetecho

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@TheRAC_UK are a complete joke!! I waited 5 hours yesterday for recovery before agreeing to leave my vehicle and go home and sort it today as it was going to be at least 2 more hours. I’ve now been waiting another 3 hours in the vehicle and still nothing!!! Help!!!!!🤬

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@graham_jaggard Both sites are SSSI's so surely the RSPB has a responsibility to has a duty to maintain them in line with the designated features at the very least?? Looking at the state of Radipole these days I seriously doubt that's the case!!!

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@radareggleton @BDSdragonflies @BrownHawker Thanks Mark👍 yes back in the day they were at a few local sites but this is the first one I’ve seen for several years !!

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Several locals, myself included, were starting to worry that these had been lost from Dorset over recent years.
Luckily we managed to find this female today, the only one, after a lot of searching but hopefully a positive sign.
Morden Bog, Dorset. @BDSdragonflies @BrownHawker

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@lawts21 @MarcHeathym007 @MJLbirder @BDSdragonflies @BrownHawker Hi Steve, one male red-veined was on the same lake, I also saw a male and the female on a small pond approximately 50-100 meters from the car park (left of the car park looking out towards the reserve)

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@MarcHeathym007 @MJLbirder @BDSdragonflies A set from today at Silverlake M & F red-veined darter and teneral M & F scarlet darter @BrownHawker

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@MarcHeathym007 @MJLbirder @BDSdragonflies It's difficult to tell at the moment, it looks like they are just starting to emerge, yesterday there were at least a 3-4 males, today it was dull and windy but we still saw a couple of males and also a teneral male and female & red-veined darter M & F

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@MarcHeathym007 @MJLbirder @BDSdragonflies Here’s a photo I took there yesterday 👍

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@dP85186699 @BC_Dorset @savebutterflies I would go for large skipper for the first two pics, as well as the markings I'm looking at the hooked antennae. I think the third is probably a small skipper because of the orange tips to the antennae but its not a good angle for the markings..happy to be corrected if I'm wrong

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@radareggleton @DorsetWildlife @ARC_Bytes @ARGroupsUK Cheers Mark!!👍

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It was pretty warm and sunny this morning in Dorset so we had a go for an early adder and struck lucky!! Photo taken with a long zoom lens to avoid disturbance and heavily cropped.
@DorsetWildlife
@ARC_Bytes
@ARGroupsUK

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@Greenwings @europebutterfly @ukbutterflies Here's a sequence that I stitched together a few years ago, taken in Spain.

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@TheRockinBirder @SightingDOR @GreenDorset @Britnatureguide @NatureUK @DorsetWildlife Great sighting Simon, was that on the Frome?

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@ianballam It looks like it could be 👍 here's one I photographed a few years back in Lanzarote

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Just in time for Halloween a Devils fingers fungus from Dorset and a quick time-lapse video showing how they "hatch"

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@markwright12002 @harbourbirds Excellent shot Mark!!👍