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Red Admirals
Red Admiral butterflies are summer creatures but they stay around the UK till September, stragglers can even be seen in November. Lionel Kellaway reports from the Dorset coast where butterfly expert Richard Fox is on migration watch.
Red Admirals
Lionel Kellaway reports on the Red Admiral migration watch from the Dorset coast
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Lynn Fomison
Jenny Mallett saw a Red Admiral taking nectar on ivy on 25th November at Butterfly Conservation's Magdalen Hill Down reserve in Winchester. Visit the branch web site at www.hantsiow-butterflies.org.uk to see further details of recent sightings of butterflies LOCATION: 51.0776,-1.2167 DATE: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:56:12 UTC
William Dickens
Upon rising on October 27th I saw a Red Admiral butterfly on the curtain of the hall window. I opened the window and the butterfly flew away LOCATION: 52.4761,1.7303 DATE: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:58:56 UTC
Claire Thomas
I was out walking today at Nashpoint beach, Marcross in the Vale of Glamorgan and saw at least 10 red admiral butterflies (and a few bumble bees!) flying around looking for anything brightly coloured..one actually seemed to home in on my bright orange jacket, poor thing! Back at home in the garden I spotted another two, unfortunately not much in the way of feeding material around! LOCATION: 51.4009,-3.5568 DATE: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:45:51 UTC
Pat Doling
We saw the Red Admiral last week, LOCATION: 51.4198,0.3378 DATE: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 17:14:57 UTC
Annabelle Tipper
There have been several Red Admirals in my garden recently. The last individual was spotted sunning itself on the wall on October 29th. LOCATION: 52.7828,0.3214 DATE: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:43:01 UTC
Diana Badcock
Here in our mid Kent garden, butterfly sightings have been far fewer than last year (no Painted ladies at all & sadly no Hummingbird Hawkmoths ), but Speckled Woods & Whites have been abundant, and Comma & Red Admirals much in evidence this Sept /October. On 25th Oct. saw spiralling flight between 2 Red Admirals - territorlal behaviour I think, because the butterfly which had been disturbed by the other one flying in, returned to its feeding on Verbena Bonariesis ( the most impressive and consistent plant I've yet found for hosting buterflies, especially when this year's buddleias have had fewer flowers). Have had 2 visits from a Sparrowhawk in 9 days; once it sat on the birdtable. Good numbers of honey bees, Bumble bees, Hover flies and signs of Leaf- cutter bees at work, including neat nests in our Bee box. LOCATION: 50.7365,0.0000 DATE: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:57:05 UTC
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