Saturday 23 July 2011

Norfolk-part one

We had a really good trip to Norfolk, which we had planned over 6mths ago. We were just passing the shop at Titchwell NR when this Purple Hairstreak landed on one of the feeders.
When it rained we retreated to bird hides and did some birding. (Pictures in next post)
We managed to Photograph Banded Damoiselle, Purple Hairstreak, Marbled White and White Admiral, which were all lifers. We also saw but could not get shots of, Red-eyed Damselfly and Brown Hawker which were also lifers.






















We were watching this Robber Fly when it suddenly jumped up and caught this Damselfly.
The Spider was also seen taking the Grasshopper.

18 comments:

  1. Glad you got the Purple Hairstreak John, lovely shots to compliment the day! Look forward to part two!
    J
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  2. Beautiful images, I personally love the White Admiral and the Marbled White.

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  3. Superb images, John. I particularly like the White Admiral and Marbled White, and would have loved to have seen these and the Purple Hairstreak & Silver-washed Fritillary.

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  4. Superb series. Really love the color mixtures. And they're all so sharp!!

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  5. Great set of pics, John. Not that often you see a Purple Hairstreak at a birdfeeder ;-)

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  6. Another superb post from you rock and rollers.
    Sam

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  7. What a fantastic series of spots. Just shows what can be seen of you have knowledge of flora and fauna. Nice work.

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  8. Super collection of images especially admire that Marbled white.

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  9. Lovely serie!
    Greeatings from Sweden
    /ingemar

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  10. Always nice to capture lifers. Super series.

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  11. Lovely shots again, there is always so much to see at Titchwell :-)

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  12. Thank you all for your comments,hope to put up part two soon.
    Work gets in the way.
    John.

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  13. I oohed and aahed while viewing every single one of these photographs. Wow! A most wonderful variety! Gorgeous wing colors and patterns. You captured them all so beautifully. Awesome spider images! Congratulations on all the lifers. As always, a pleasure to view your outstanding blog!

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  14. Gorgeous butterflies and such an exquisite variety of insects! That type of photograph must take a lot of patience and know-how.

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  15. Thank you Hilke,Frank,Julie and Alan.
    John.

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