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This tiny beauty was photographed early this morning 19.08.22 at St Catherine’s Hill SSSI in Hampshire . The recent heatwave has kept me away from my favourite SSSI as it’s been to warm for my macrophotography even the early mornings found the butterflies to active ! Glad to say on my return today there is still a good number of chalkhill blue butterflies, brown argus, and small heaths all feeding on the now dwindling late summer wild flowers.WPD22nature
Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) butterfly sippoing nectar from red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower.
Strzępotek ruczajnik (Coenonympha pamphilus) spijający nektar z kwiatu koniczyny łąkowej (Trifolium pratense).
It seems to have been a good year for small heaths. I've seen good numbers in quite a few places and had plenty of photo opportunities. This was from a evening last week where I found three small heaths roosting in small grassy area
I took this shot in July 2017 during a holiday to Latvia. I found the species to be common and widespread in coastal woodland and dunes.
NO GROUP INVITES PLEASE
Another couple from the archive - 2022 this time. Again sharing now since Springwatch are going to be featuring this area, "Isle" of Purbeck, on TV, soon. Also known as the Wood Tiger beetle, the rare heath tiger beetle, Cicindela sylvatica is the largest of the UKs tiger beetles and requires lowland heathland.
A couple more from yesterday's walk in the mist around Wildmoor Heath. Needed a bit of croping in Photoshop.
I tried to capture this butterfly taking off, not to bad for a first attempt but there is still motion blur on the wings even at 1/3200sec. focus is tricky also.
Lockdown Walks 2020. One of two ponds in Cardiff's Heath Park, although a look at old OS maps suggest it was considerably larger at one time. This parkland of some 91 acres / 37 hectares is a remnant of the great heath that until the 19th century spread at least a couple of miles to the north as well as to the west.
Rainworth Heath, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, UK.
This small reserve of native lowland heath is managed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
I rarely get good photographs of Small Heaths. Apart from their small size, they also don't come to rest very often, and when they do it is often low down amongst the grasses so an unobstructed shot is hard to come by. I spent quite a while following this one by a local reservoir in South Yorkshire before I managed to
get a clear photograph.
Heath fritillary (Melitaea athalia) on a flowering sorrel (Rumex acetosa).
I hope you will correct me if I got the ID wrong!
Have a wonderful Sunday and a great week ahead, everyone!
An Albion Valkyrie coach is slowly followed up the hill at Heath by similarly aged vehicles during the annual bus rally to the village. I don't know whether it is coincidence or not but in 1950 Leyland Coaches bought out Albion. The second coach here was built in 1952 and to my eye its appearance seems very similar to the older Albion.
This is the first (and I think the best) pic of our trip to the Mehlinger Heath a few weeks ago. I will explain the picture by some numbers:
500 km ride (approx 300 miles)
1 hr of sleep
80 otheres photographers all around
For someone who loves the loneliness of photography, it was really a tough test.
We drove there, because my wonderful wife Tina wanted to see the blooming heath and this one is the most south for us.