Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷

A thoroughly rebarbative curmudgeon who is retired and enjoying it - everyday is a holiday!
Latest lifetime tick - Orange-tailed Clearwing
13-06-2023

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@jelltex Pink Lint or Elephant's footprints??

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Nice to see Clearwings in the garden. Current tally is Red-belted, Currant, Orange -tailed and Yellow-legged.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@jelltex That is a miserable specimen Ian

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@Matt_Greenwings Yup - about the only source I could find.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@Matt_Greenwings Hi Matt - At long last I just might have it as a garden plant. After I fell in love with them in Rhodes last year I managed to obtain 20 responsibly sourced fresh seeds. So far 8 have germinated - fingers crossed.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@Sofabirdermoi For years the RSPB has only considered the bottom line - if it isn't income generation - Restaurant, Shop, Pond dipping and Birds as an afterthought then it goes. The website states - Our wildlife watching hides and viewpoints are a great place to spot wildlife. Not anymore.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

I just can't type!!

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Pleased to record Raspberry Clearwing, Raspberry Clearwing, Pennisetia hylaeiformis in my W. Sussex Garden.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Vercors in Summer tour comes up with another gem. Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis paphia f. valezina

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@orchidsorknot @SLeguil @naturetrektours We visited two areas - first had 6 stems within a square metre, the second we found several singletons and a group of three. Very difficult to find amongst the leaf litter.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Ghost Orchid, Epipogium aphyllum - somewhere in France

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@jelltex @SLeguil @naturetrektours Beers all round tonight!!

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@SkyCricket Where's the Blast????

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

@AHunterPhotos @rlewington2 @Greenwings Looking forward to being there next week!

[mick davis @Med2005Mick]

Bee eaters at Trimingham this morning

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

What appears to be a Titania's Fritillary, Boloria titania aberration. Any opinions gratefully received

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Please to find and record Niobe, Fabriciana niobe. - albeit a fleeting moment

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Finding the most obliging Apollos in huge numbers thanks to our guides on the @Greenwings Italian Alps tour.

[Dave Potter 🦋🐦🌺📷 @ewobwomco]

Oak Eggars are busy too!

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Titania's Fritillary, Boloria titania came a close second on day two