We had an awesome 6 species of fritillary at the site, Queen of Spain, High Brown and Meadow which were all new for me, along with Silver-washed, Provencal and Spotted.
Also 3 species of orchid; Man, Bee and Heath Spotted, along with plenty of other good flowers.
Heath-spotted Orchid
Spanish Rusty Foxglove
Yellow Snapdragon
Purple Shot Copper
Queen of Spain Fritillary
Spotted Fritillary
High Brown Fritillary
Martagon Lilly
Provencal Fritillary
Bee Orchid
Biting Stonecrop
Western Grreen Lizard?
Heath Spotted Orchid close up, a very variable species!
3 comments:
Hi Joe,
I came across your blog at the beginning of the year. I’m Shirl of shirls gardenwatch ( http://blog.shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk/. )
On March 3rd, this year, you posted photos on a lunar eclipse. I was out with my video camera and didn’t get very good shots but hey, we enjoyed watching it. Today (sorry yesterday by 13 mins) I have posted on the annual Perseid meteor shower (http://blog.shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk/2007/08/meteors-tonight.html ) and I have linked back to your post.
I will take a guess that you are away travelling but I thought I would say Hi!
Hi Joe,
Sure your High Brown isnt a Dark Green. I cannot see any 'eye' spotting on the underwing typical of High Brown.. Cheers Gareth
Hi Gareth,
thanks, just looked it up and it is indeed a Dark Green Fritillary. I'll stick to birds from now on!!!
cheers
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