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Post by peterob on Jul 16, 2023 16:59:10 GMT
Additional fact: The Gatekeeper is often called the Hedge Brown. Thank you - I had looked up Gatekeeper the other day after you said there were a lot about and noted that the Female was paler. So I jumped to conclusions. Male Gatekeeper I presume ? I'll edit my previous post and correct it.  DSCF4907.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by MJB on Jul 16, 2023 17:04:44 GMT
Male and female Gatekeeper are identical under wing. The male will have a broader dark band around the edge of it's upper wings.
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Post by peterob on Jul 16, 2023 17:04:50 GMT
Two white tips on a thistle.  DSCF4875.jpg by Pete, on Flickr I saw a different type of bumble bee with alternating white and black strips but it buzzed off while I was focussing. |
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Post by peterob on Jul 16, 2023 17:06:52 GMT
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Post by andy on Jul 16, 2023 17:10:29 GMT
It's been a bumper year for Gatekeepers. Not up here unfortunately. Multiple sources say it is absent from Scotland as they are Southern softies  . |
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Post by peterob on Jul 16, 2023 17:11:52 GMT
I posted this in the daily challenge today. I was lucky to see it touch down, only very briefly, but unfortunately there was an intervening thistle and the leaves were in the way but not clearly visible because they were so far out of focus - hence the blurring across the head, body and half the wings. I thought it suited the "veiled" theme.  DSCF4897.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by MJB on Jul 16, 2023 17:52:17 GMT
It's been a bumper year for Gatekeepers. Not up here unfortunately. Multiple sources say it is absent from Scotland as they are Southern softies . It seems the Glaswegien Skipper is heading south.  weegie skipper by Martin Bone, on Flickr |
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Post by andy on Jul 16, 2023 18:15:43 GMT
Not up here unfortunately. Multiple sources say it is absent from Scotland as they are Southern softies . It seems the Glaswegien Skipper is heading south. weegie skipper by Martin Bone, on Flickr If they are young and highly educated who could blame them  . Do they have another common name? Not seeing them on the lists for round here. In Midlothian I think the only skippers are large and small although others are around further afield. |
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Post by MJB on Jul 16, 2023 18:33:02 GMT
If they are young and highly educated who could blame them . Do they have another common name? Not seeing them on the lists for round here. In Midlothian I think the only skippers are large and small although others are around further afield. The ginger wigged small skipper I think there's been a successful reintroduction of the chequered skipper in Western Scotland. We have them at one site in England (Rockingham Forest). You also have the Dingy Skipper around the Moray Firth. The large and small skippers range up as far as lowland Scotland, but the Grizzled, Essex, and Lulworth Skipper are restricted to Southern England. The Lulworth skipper has the smallest range being found pretty much on the coastal Isle of Purbeck. |
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Post by andy on Jul 16, 2023 18:50:09 GMT
If they are young and highly educated who could blame them . Do they have another common name? Not seeing them on the lists for round here. In Midlothian I think the only skippers are large and small although others are around further afield. The ginger wigged small skipper I think there's been a successful reintroduction of the chequered skipper in Western Scotland. We have them at one site in England (Rockingham Forest). You also have the Dingy Skipper around the Moray Firth. The large and small skippers range up as far as lowland Scotland, but the Grizzled, Essex, and Lulworth Skipper are restricted to Southern England. The Lulworth skipper has the smallest range being found pretty much on the coastal Isle of Purbeck. This pdf is the best I've found for Scottish butterflies... Butterfly Conservation butterfly-conservation.org › ...PDF Butterflies of Scotland butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/Butterflies%20of%20Scotland%20poster%20for%20print.pdfSays there are some Essex ones over at Lockerbie which is about an hours drive south and not too far out of the way from some bike trails in Dumfries. |
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Post by Kath on Jul 17, 2023 6:17:05 GMT
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Post by peterba on Jul 17, 2023 6:30:50 GMT
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Post by Kath on Jul 17, 2023 6:50:14 GMT
Glad you like it, especially as I ended up weighted the wrong way by the contents of my camera bag on my back as I was crouching down for this, ending up staring up at concerned strangers who thought I was drunk. |
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Post by peterob on Jul 17, 2023 9:20:24 GMT
Glad you like it, especially as I ended up weighted the wrong way by the contents of my camera bag on my back as I was crouching down for this, ending up staring up at concerned strangers who thought I was drunk. Indeed a great composition. I am in total awe, especially as "crouching down" must be the understatement of the year  |
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Post by dorsetmike on Jul 17, 2023 12:54:49 GMT
 Taken a few years back at Badbury rings, often wondered about the ID
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