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During
an enforced spell of rest due to back trouble I (Paul) spent
more time sitting & walking and exercising about our garden
during late Summer 2000. It was during this time that Lorraine and
I began to notice how many different Butterflies there seemed to be.
Not being a gardener as such, it seems lucky that by accident, what
flowers we had appeared to be good for our fluttery friends and so we
began to count the number of different types that were visiting us and
Paul began to photograph them. Here then is a listing of the Butterflies
we have seen and identified so far, along with photographs of the nearly
all of them. I am endeavouring to photograph all the different Butterflies
that visit either our Garden or the shrub filled bank (called a 'Bund')
behind it which shields us from an industrial estate. As time progresses
we shall also add a page on Butterflies that haven't visited our garden/bank
but are found in the UK and seen by us whilst on our various
holidays. We have had 22 confirmed regular species of Butterflies (not counting the different sexes) seen in either our garden or the bund (bank) at the back since we started watching them in 2000 with one possible rare sighting of the White Admiral. Looks like we must be doing something right without even trying!! We wonder what other Butterflies might venture into the garden during the coming months & years... Our hobby also plays a part in our enjoyable trips to COAA in the Algarve during May 2002, April/May 2005 and August 2006 so I have created a page on the Algarve Butterflies we saw - some of which are new to us and some which were 'old' friends! Why not take a look.NEW for 2008:
A new page with a small selection of short movie clips of some of our Butterflies in action so visit our Butterfly movie page to see them. I have prepared a collection of my best Butterfly images that would make ideal gifts - go to the Online shop to view and order yours now! |
| Previous years sightings: |
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| 2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
All
pictures of the Butterflies are copyright Paul and Lorraine Money.
Early pictures were taken using an Olympus
OM1 and a Pentax P30 SLR with either a 50 mm F1.8 lens,
a 135 mm F2.8 lens or with a 500 mm F8 lens and either
100 or 200 ISO slide film. The slides, negatives and prints
were subsequently scanned and resized ready for placing
on the web site. Pictures taken since 2003 are taken using Digital
cameras such as a Minolta DiMage Z1 and a Canon 300D DSLR. Lorraine
and I hope you enjoy looking at these pictures - even though
they are probably not the best ever taken of Butterflies! If
you are an expert on Butterflies and any of the pictures show a
different Butterfly than we have labelled it then do please email
us with the details. Similarly if you come across any web sites
on Butterflies that are not already listed here then let us have
the URL and we will link from here to the sites.
Sites so far found:
| The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Butterfly Page |
Butterfly
Conservation |
| Simon Coombes great UK Butterflies
site and his main site:
Captain's
European Butterfly Guide |
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| Steven Cheshire's great site for UK butterflies | All about Butterflies - another great site with lots
of basic information |
Lincolnshire Bird and Wildlife Photo Album |
Buckfast Butterflies & Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary |
| WorldWide Butterflies-
for the enthusiast and collector. |
UK Butterflies web
site |