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On 2013-08-09 11:53:25 +0100, echinosum said:
sacha;989412 Wrote: Nothing else seems to match the description. I went out today, hoping to see it again but that didn't happen. I'll try again tomorrow, if the weather holds. The forecast isn't great. -- Sacha 'Buy plants online, including rare and popular plant varieties from Hill House Nursery, mail order plant specialist' (http://www.hillhousenursery.com) South Devon It's not that PE is never seen in S Devon, there are a handful of sighting records there, it's just that its so rare there that we look for another explanation first. I usually go for the trope that if there are two explanations, one involving something very rare and one involving something reasonably common, it is close to certain to be the the latter. Thus the person who was strongly asserting they had seen a golden oriole out of season and in the wrong place was eventually persuaded it was a green woodpecker. But if you look under Camberwell Beauty it says "rare migrant", but I've seen Camberwell Beauty a couple of times; after all there's really no mistaking it. It's been a funny year for butterflies, the obligate early breeders suffered badly, but others have thrived. It wasn't Purple Emperor as it didn't have those white markings on the wings. But what did cross my mind today is that while butterfly observing round here, we should probably be aware that Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm is just minutes away by road, so even fewer minutes by butterfly. I suppose we might, one day, see the odd escapee! That Camberwell Beauty is simply gorgeous but that I've certainly never seen. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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