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First Butterflies 2022 (1 Viewer)
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After Yellow-legged Tortoiseshell, warm days now bring quite a few Small Tortoiseshells and Brimstones. Lakes all still totally frozen however.
Jon Turner
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Added Brimstone, an immaculate Comma, Peacock and Holly Blue today - lots of Small Tortoiseshell and as Aeshna5 says an unidentifiable White....
Five days into the season, only 10C, but a pleasing 52 butterflies today. Next days set to warm further .... should be good
What are you getting this time of year?
Most common are Brimstones and Small Tortoiseshells, the next few days should add Peacock and Comma. More 'juicy' species on the wing in these days should include include Yellow-legged Tortoiseshell (was my first butterfly of the year on Monday), Large Tortoiseshell and Camberwell Beauty.
Really needs to be middle April before a whole mass of species start to fly.
About 20 or so Siberian Winter Damselflies today too.
Depends which species you are interested in, but can be superb from middle May through to end of July - in June and early July, not only is it possible to see over 50 species in a day on a top day (my record is 58), but the sheer spectacle of numbers can be mind-blowing (literally thousands of butterflies along forest tracks and meadows, sometimes hundreds of emperors etc).
Welsh Peregrine
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Off the Mark at last, 2 Commas and a Small Tortoiseshell.
will have to look at a may half term trip, are the logistics easy?
Very easy.
PM me and I'll assist you, birding also excellent in May in case the weather doesn't play ball for butterflies
Thanks. It won’t be this year but I really want to plan for it and the birds would be great too
Xenospiza
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Just check in observation.org how many of the Small Tortoiseshells reported between Rhine, Ruhr and Teutoburgerwald this year have a picture (none!) and compare this to Large Tortoiseshell. Note that I did not add a picture to all of my observations.
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In the hills (Bergerland, Teutoburgerwald, Sauerland, Eifel) Small Tortoiseshell is still common (and it may still be along the Rhine as well, but that is not that well supported).
Anyway: today I saw the first two female Brimstones, three weeks after the first males!
Nice early spring day, today's tally - ten Yellow-legged Tortoiseshells, three Large Tortoiseshells, 12 Small Tortoiseshells, one Comma, about 15 Brimstones.
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Wasn‘t aware of this. I was under the impression that they are by far the more common Tortoiseshell as I still remember my parents garden near Mönchengladbach being regularly visited by Small Tortoiseshells not too long ago and assumed that the declining numbers of them reflected the decline in butterflies in general in the area. But it looks like the number of Small T. is declining faster than others.Just check in observation.org how many of the Small Tortoiseshells reported between Rhine, Ruhr and Teutoburgerwald this year have a picture (none!) and compare this to Large Tortoiseshell. Note that I did not add a picture to all of my observations.
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In the hills (Bergerland, Teutoburgerwald, Sauerland, Eifel) Small Tortoiseshell is still common (and it may still be along the Rhine as well, but that is not that well supported).
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