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Re: The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

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Postby sg31 » July 11th, 2021, 10:56 am

Clitheroekid wrote:I couldn’t tell if it was a butterfly or a moth.



Thanks CK. I suspected the second was a moth because of the fat body. That's about as far as my knowledge goes.

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Re: The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

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Postby bungeejumper » July 11th, 2021, 11:04 am

sg31 wrote:
Clitheroekid wrote:I couldn’t tell if it was a butterfly or a moth.

Thanks CK. I suspected the second was a moth because of the fat body. That's about as far as my knowledge goes.

I've always understood that if it folds its wings up vertically it's a butterfly. If it lays them down flat, it's a moth.

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Re: The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

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Postby UncleEbenezer » July 11th, 2021, 1:01 pm

Clitheroekid wrote:
sg31 wrote:CK, great photos. Any idea what they are? I'm clueless about butterfly and moth identification.

Thanks. The first one is definitely a Meadow Brown, but I struggled to identify the second one - in fact I couldn’t tell if it was a butterfly or a moth.

The club-shaped antennae are the clearest indicator. It's a butterfly.

Moth antennae have many and various forms (some of them like a feather), but the club is a butterfly thing.

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Re: The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

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Postby gryffron » July 13th, 2021, 12:22 pm

It's a Small Skipper.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/butt ... ll-skipper
Google reverse image search is awesome. Just drop your picture into the search bar ;)

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Re: The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

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Postby swill453 » July 17th, 2021, 5:18 pm

Image

(Not my pic, widely shared on Twitter e.g. https://twitter.com/Darren_Young_A/stat ... 4978497536)

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Postby Clitheroekid » July 18th, 2021, 1:12 am

Snorvey wrote:Cold crisp and, despite seeing the turbines revolving, it was really still.

This confirms my suspicion that the turbines are driven by batteries, just to give the impression they’re saving the planet! ;-)

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Postby dionaeamuscipula » July 19th, 2021, 4:35 pm

swill453 wrote:Image

(Not my pic, widely shared on Twitter e.g. https://twitter.com/Darren_Young_A/stat ... 4978497536)

Scott.


Sadly, Snopes says its fake.

:-(

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Postby Clitheroekid » July 19th, 2021, 9:02 pm

Here's another from my (all of 3 photos) butterfly collection. I took it yesterday at Arnside, one of my favorite walking spots. It was a fantastic day, we went swimming, and the water was actually warmer than that in Ibiza where I escaped to last week.

At first glance I thought this was a Meadow Brown, as in my last photo, but after a bit of research it turns out to be a Gatekeeper. The way to tell them apart is that the Gatekeeper has two white spots in the black spot on its wing, whereas the Meadow Brown just has one.

This is another butterfly that used to be confined to southern England but has gradually moved north, thouh not, presumably, because of house prices ....

I'm not going to even try to identify its bug companion, with whom I assume it was discussing their respective holiday plans 8-)

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Postby scotia » July 22nd, 2021, 3:44 pm

Snorvey wrote:Not my pic.

A kestrel (?) Sits on one of the landing lights at RAF Lossiemouth.

A male kestrel (?). The (larger) female doesn't have the grey head. Good news for the Drome, since it should scare off lots of small birds. Bad news for voles.

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Postby Clitheroekid » August 10th, 2021, 12:07 am

Much as I like clear blue skies I think a bit of cloud adds character to a photo - this from one of my favourite walks alongside the River Ribble:

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Postby TUK020 » August 11th, 2021, 6:36 pm

Itsallaguess wrote:Just a firefly being a firefly, but a well-captured moment all the same -

https://i.imgur.com/IGiqsmV.mp4

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Oh cool, this is cheerful! How can you be grumpy when you see the sun shine out of his little pink marshmallows

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Postby scotia » September 7th, 2021, 5:04 pm

Some recent ramblings in another country which I found interesting - I'll guess that they are familiar to the southerners

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Along the ramparts of the Cissbury Iron Age Hill Fort (in Sussex). To quote from the National Trust:-

The Iron Age hill fort was constructed around 400BC and was used for defence for around 300 years. Cissbury is a univallate fort, that is a hilltop enclosure with a single rampart accompanied by a ditch and a low counterscarp bank


Its on the South (Chalk) Downs - and we saw several clumps of Scarlet Pimpernel - which I don't think I have ever seen in Scotland

And now to another (more modern) defensive structure

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and its description

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This is in Surrey - which I always associate with Alkaline (Chalk) soil - but it is on Hankley Common - an Acid soil region, with flora reminiscent of the Scottish highlands

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Yes - this really is Surrey! And possibly the reason why it was used as the site of James Bond's ancestral Scottish mansion in Skyfall.

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Postby scotia » September 9th, 2021, 9:25 pm

Just in case you thought my foray to the deep south last week was solely to investigate defensive structures, I thought I'd better put up some other pictures of my wanderings. First its a vineyard - I believe its the largest in England

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Its Denbies Wine Estate at Dorking. The estate is spread over 650 acres, with 265 Acres under vines - and 7 miles of footpaths over which the public may freely roam. Or if you are a bit lazy - they also pull carriages round the estate with a tractor. I'm told that the paths have been much patronised during lockdown.

And not far away there is the RHS Garden Wisley. It was over two years since we last visited it, and since then there have been impressive new buildings opened. There have also been some re-arrangements in their plantings. In the new trials garden, the dahlias are currently at their best. This is one which I have been told to order for next season. Its called Kelsey Annie Joy

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And for all Dundee United Fans we have :)

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called Totally Tangerine

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Postby Itsallaguess » September 10th, 2021, 6:50 pm

Some great images in the Guardian link below, from the Drone Photo Awards 2021 -

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/sep/10/over-and-above-drone-photo-awards-2021

My personal favourite from the above link -

Wild Night in the Adriatic (Nature Commended Award - Stari Grad, on Hvar Island, with fork lightning and a waterspout on the open sea) -

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Postby Clitheroekid » September 10th, 2021, 7:53 pm

I was astonished by the photo of the polluted river in Romania, so looked into it further, and found a remarkable - and depressing story - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -mine.html

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Postby Itsallaguess » September 11th, 2021, 1:42 pm

Twenty years on - the 9/11 photos we'll never forget...

After the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, Kelly Guenther grabbed her camera gear and ran to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade that overlooks the New York Harbor and the skyline of Lower Manhattan.

Then she saw the second plane coming.

It was on her left, flying over the Statue of Liberty and heading right for Manhattan. A sense of dread washed over her.

“I knew what was going to happen: I was going to witness hundreds of people die,” she recalled nearly 20 years later. “I remember thinking, ‘No, no, no!’ Then I took a breath and told myself, ‘Do your job.’

I put the camera to my face, framed the skyline wide in my viewfinder, and I waited for the plane to come into my frame on the left.”

Her photo ran on the front pages of newspapers all over the world the next day. Some cropped the photo or used a sequence of two or three images, showing the plane exploding into the South Tower.


https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/09/us/9-11-photos-cnnphotos/

The day the world changed completely...

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Postby swill453 » September 11th, 2021, 2:05 pm

A longer article about the "Falling Man" photograph https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a ... tom-junod/

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Postby Itsallaguess » October 2nd, 2021, 2:11 pm

An afternoon in Paris

Shot by the Lumiere brothers in 1900 - (Colorised, 4k, 50fps)

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfreliantUnselfishAlbacoretuna-mobile.mp4

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Postby scotview » October 21st, 2021, 4:26 pm

Wild day at the breakwater today.
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Postby pje16 » October 21st, 2021, 4:28 pm

so you didn't fancy taking a dip then :lol:
stunning picture by the way


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