A memory of Summer

[Palustris]

Friends together.

[tim]

That's reeeeely amazing! - Tim

[MagpieDi]

Fantastic photos...Eric...puts mine to shame ..but here it is anyway!

[Beer_Belly]

Here's mine..

Peac0ck

Red Admiral

[MagpieDi]

Absolutely staggering BB ..!!
Well ..my peac o c k  butterfly may be pathetic...but........thought you might like this one of me taken this summer!!!  





Also found pic of Shaun...taken just after he munched all my honeysuckle........and finished up as Sunday lunch!!  

[Palustris]

This site has had  some beautiful pictures, I think I will just retire now and spend the next few years learning how to take better photos.
Have spent all Summer trying to get close enougbh to the Woodpecker to get a decent shot, but it is very shy. And I have only got a point and click camera no telephoto lenses or such like so I will have to get close. Ah well.
As a family that shouts mint sauce at every lamb we see I reckon your Shawn, Diane, did well to get to even that size.
Do you say Horseradish sauce to the cows though?

[tim]

Painted what - BB?? Must be different in Holland! - Tim

[Hugh_Jones]

Perhaps the dutch Painted Ladies are a bit butch, Tim, or the Peac*cks are a bit effeminate.


P.S. You should have seen what the Board Censor did to my first attempt.  Peathingies indeed!

[Beer_Belly]

Oops thanks for the corrections (I've corrected it now) what's a painted lady then - another name for a red admiral or is it a completely different flutterby ?

[MagpieDi]

Hi BB...Here's one I took earlier!!   ( I wish!! )    



Painted Lady

[Clivia]

Just to see if I can post a picture!

[Clivia]

Wahayyyyyyyy

First time lucky!

[Beer_Belly]

Well Done !

but...

what's it called ? and when/where did you take the photo ?

[Clivia]

OOOoo, and there I was,  all excited!    

Its called a butterfly ( ), and I took it in August on the nicotiana growing on my allotment. If you look really carefully you can see the bad infestation of greenfly I didn't know I had until I took this picture.   :-/ (I really should wear my glasses more!)  

[tim]

- tried to reply last night, BB, but had a semi-crash.

Can't see MD's picture so here's my idea of a Painted Lady - Tim



Can now see your's, MD - looks mighty like a a Red Admiral to me?

[Hyacinth]

City Slicker, me....

Only Painted Ladies I know are long and green and living in my freezer

Brill pix, all..- Lishka

[ina]

They're in the red-light district in Amsterdam too, must be the urban variety.

[MagpieDi]

Hi Tim
I'm no expert on Lepidoptera, but ........my pic is possibly a male painted lady    and yours is a female...naturally!!

Clivia.......your little beauty is a 'speckled wood'  

Ina ...your cat is brilliant!!...where did you find him?

[tim]

- lepi WHAT?  OK, I'll come quietly!! - Tim

[john_miller]

Great pictures, but BB is that a Clerodenderon?