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Aish Tor in the Dartmoor National Park in Devon (UK) - a spectacular site for Spring Fritillaries! (0617)
First time I have seen, or photographed one of these, UKs most threatened butterfly. The male is on the left.
I decided to take a drive down to south Devon to camp for several nights, with the specific intention of spending a day on Aish Tor to see HBFs. So I spent 8 hours on Sunday on Aish Tor. It was exceedingly hard work, once I got up onto the hillside, having parked in my ignorance of the location, at Newbridge car park down on the River Dart; it was sultry and very hot and the butterflies had twin turbo boost full on: they simply never seemed to stop moving. Added to that, there were ticks everywhere in the sea of metre high bracken that covered the hillside, so long sleeves and trousers tucked into socks was de rigeur and made it even less comfortable!
Having spent much of the the morning, tagging along with a lady who had been before and seemed to know the best location, I branched off alone to search higher up the slopes where fritillaries seemed more frequent. It was 3 hours altogether before I had one settled on bramble flower in a less than ideal location, low down in a corner of a small area cleared of bracken. In mid afternoon another one showed up to investigate dog poo on the path where I was resting. Not long after that I had another male nectaring on bramble, but it was tight to photograph in a narrow path trodden through the bracken. Late in the afternoon I was shown these two mating specimens by a couple I spoke to, which probably saved the day!
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High Brown Fritillary:
Large powerful butterfly found at Aish Dartmoor I was really lucky to stumble across this pair mating. It is said that Conservationist's are working really hard to save this wonderful butterfly from extinction. wing span is 60-67mm male to female.
The underside is the surest way to identify the high brown fritillary, but on this particular day they wouldn't cooperate! This was the only one which gave me a clear side-on view for more than a second, and even then I couldn't get the angle I needed as I shot through a gap in the bracken.
Om Al-Aish abandoned station
Stars drawing on the sky while the Earth is rotating around itself. This shot has an exposure of 3180 Seconds which means 53 mins.
This is a natural shot. The circles are natural where the stars at night drew it.
Solo decir, que a personas como, Nereaplace ♥ que me han ayudado tanto y me han agradecido simples cosas como comentarios en sus fotos o algunos ánimos… gracias a esas personas, sigo aquí porque me transmite muchísima confianza y ganas de seguir, meteos en su flirck, merece la pena, porque sus fotos son tremendas.
AISH TOR, DEVON.
Britain's most endangered and "elusive" butterfly, the High Brown has undergone a massive decline since the 1950's. Strongholds now remain on Morecambe Bay Limestones, Dartmoor, Exmoor and it is down to a single colony in Wales.
Thanks To Saleh For the great tea :P
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11880 Sec. Exposure Time
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photo by:Me
location:Kuwait,Om Al-Aish station
photo idea:Me
camera:NIKON D300
Lens:Nikon 10.5mm Fish Eye
ISO:800
F#:F/4
filter kit:none
other: Cable Release + tripod
Copyright for this gallery photo belongs solely to Talal A. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer
As the milky clouds slowly roll in for the afternoon, Cross Country power cars Nos: 43207 and 43301 accelerate past Aish working 0Z43 08:20 Laira T&RSMD to Laira T&RSMD via Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury. The run was for driver training, with upcoming engineering works and the need for Cross Country services to divert away from the usual route via Bridgwater.