We have had a request from Darren Cook of the National Trust for transect walkers on three sites, all in Purbeck. Continue reading
We need urgent help with monitoring butterflies on various sites so all the recording that has been done on them in the past is not wasted. Today we are appealing specially for help in the Purbeck Area.
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Red Admiral. Photo: Jeremy Oakes
Some butterflies look like they are posing for their photo! An example, too, of the wonders of modern technology – who would have thought twenty years ago that you’d be carrying round a mobile telephone, let alone taking such good photos with it.
Jeremy caught this shot on 15/07/2017 on Corfe Common, and it reached us not many minutes later. Pity it can’t automatically put itself up on the website too – we’re a bit behind due to working on the 2016 Butterfly Report, but that’s gone to the printers and will be with members in early August, so we’re working hard to catch up.