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DATE |
OBSERVER |
LOCATION |
MICRO-LOCATION |
NUMBER SEEN AND SEX |
TIME |
WEATHER CONDITIONS |
BEHAVIOUR |
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25/6/06 |
Duncan Stubbs |
Black Park |
TQ010840 |
1 m |
11.30 |
|
On path |
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25/6/06 |
Wendy & Mick Campbell |
Piddington Wood |
Territory SP 629161 |
1 probable sighting high up |
|
|
High up over the central Ash tree of the
"vista" . It must have been 100' up and looked too big to be a Red
Admiral. The shape of the wings and flight pattern looked right for PE |
|
29/6/06 |
? |
Whitecross Green Wood |
|
1 |
|
|
|
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29/6/06 |
Dave Wilton |
Finemere Wood |
Southern edge in Finemere Meadows |
1 m |
|
|
On the ground close to the wood edge in an
area where there is a lot of bare earth. It was disturbed by my
passage, took off and did three or four large lazy circles around me at
grass-top height and then shot off up into the wood canopy. |
|
29/6/ 06 |
John Ward-Smith |
Little Hazes, private |
Edge of wood, with scattered mature oaks. The site is
south facing, close to M4 and lake at Felix Farm Trout Fishery |
1 m |
fleeting but clear sighting at 11.45 am. Total episode
lasted approx 30 secs |
Fine and sunny temp 22C |
Single specimen flew out briefly from one side of an oak
tree, flew round the back and then reappeared on the other side of the tree,
at a height of between 4 and 5 metres (12 to 15 ft) from the ground. I was
about 8 to 10 metres (25 to 30 feet) from tree. |
|
30/6/06 |
Wendy & Mick Campbell |
Oakley Wood |
SP611117; tree tops near the gate in the Oakley Car Park |
1 |
13.30, for 20 minutes |
|
One definite sighting of a PE high up in the trees. It
flew down from the Oak tree and disappeared. |
|
30/6/06 |
Wendy & Mick Campbell |
Piddington Wood & Little Wood (private) |
|
1 |
11.15 to 13.30. 45 mins at Piddington territory |
|
Spent 45 minutes at
the "PE Vista". After 15 minutes Mick saw a male PE flying towards
us. It was about 20' above our heads and close enough to see the
purple sheen. We watched it complete a circuit of the "vista"
and then it headed back to the footpath and disappeared. |
|
30/6/06 |
Dennis Dell |
Finemere Wood |
Narrow ride SP718220 |
1 |
12.00 |
|
Flying swiftly at low trajectory southwards along ride
leading northwards from turning
circle |
|
30/.6/.06 |
G.Elcombe |
Bernwood |
SP 612 103 Hell Coppice |
1 m |
11.00 |
Sunny |
Perched on shrub, c 1 mtr above ground then skimming at
low level up and down ride for c. 5 minutes |
|
1/7/06 |
? |
Whitecross Green Wood |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1/7/06 |
Graham Taylor |
Wytham Woods (Singing Way) (permit required) |
SP467075 |
1 m |
Observed for at least 10 mins around 11:00, and for around
1 min at 14:30. |
Hot with unbroken sunshine. |
Male alighting repeatedly on track, possibly for salts,
and skimming fast up and down ride in sunny clearing. Opening wings
occasionally on the ground. Perched once on the lower boughs of a beech with
wings open. Woodland in the immediate vicinity is mainly beech with ash,
sycamore, oak and wych elm mixed in. |
|
1/7/06 |
Christopher Prideaux |
Doddershall Wood, private |
Main north-south ride; |
2 |
|
|
Down at muddy
puddle |
|
1/7/06 |
Graham Taylor |
Wytham Woods |
SP466088 SP467075 |
2 |
Fleeting glimpse at 13:45. |
Hot with unbroken sunshine, but flying in shade. |
Flying fast and direct through shady woodland at about
head height. Woodland in the immediate vicinity is mainly sycamore with some
mature ash and oak mixed in. |
|
2/7/06 |
? |
Whitecross Green Wood |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
2/7/06 |
Giles Alder |
Warburg reserve |
SU72028782 |
1 |
12.30 |
30 degrees |
Flying fast around wildlife garden and around
roof top |
|
2/7/06 |
Dave Wilton |
Rushbeds Wood |
SP666158; ash canopy gap at edge of wood |
1 m |
1.75 hrs; seen for 20 minutes from 15.55 |
33 degrees |
Patrolling gap and perching |
|
3/7/06 |
Dave Wilton |
Finemere Wood |
SP721216 |
1 m |
15.00 to 17.30 |
|
After walking through the gate at the entrance to the wood
this was the first butterfly I saw. It was orbiting the ride
cross-roads by the sign board and then landed on the sallow on the SW corner
of the junction, at about 10ft up, and proceeded to sun itself for about five
minutes. . When it took off it headed north up the main ride and I
lost it from sight. |
|
3/7/06 |
A Parker |
Black Park |
TQ010840 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
3/7/06 |
Dennis Dell |
Greatsea Wood, private |
highest point in
wood |
2 |
|
|
Two flying together leisurely over tops of Oaks |
|
3/7/06 |
Andy Reynolds |
Yorks Wood |
SP61205 |
1m |
11.00 |
|
Flying down, up and
down the ride before I lost him. Landed on the ride two or three times,
settling for no more than a minute or so. |
|
3/7/06 |
H & T Hall |
Rushbeds Wood |
SP666158 |
1m |
11.00 am |
|
At around 11.00am we
came upon a butterfly sunning itself on the ground. On studying the photo
when we arrived home, it was a male Purple Emperor. |
|
3/7/06 |
Dennis Dell |
Finemere Wood |
SP719218 |
1 |
11 to 12 |
|
Flying across intermediate territory [widely spaced
mature Oaks] |
|
3/7/06 |
Dick Lister |
Amersham Field Centre, Mop End SU929969 |
Around the centre building particularly the dustbins and
adjacent area |
1, Sex uncertain |
About 9.45 am. Observed for about 7 or 8 minutes |
Very hot and sunny |
Noticed from window and went out to investigate. It rather
lazily flew around, settled on a plank by the dustbins and then on a plastic
bag containing dog poo. It then settled on a nearby wooden gate. Observed for several minutes and time to
get an insect book from the centre and make a very skimpy sketch of the
underside of the wing. It then flew
away – not seen during the rest of the day. |
|
3/7/06 |
D Ferguson |
Finemere Wood |
main ride (SP720217) |
1m |
|
Sunny |
Flew NW low across ride |
|
|
|
|
Circle (SP718219) |
1m |
|
|
Flew low S across W side of circle |
|
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|
main track outside wood (SP721216) |
1m |
|
|
Resting on track. Flew off W. |
|
4/7/06 |
Niall Lusby |
Warburg reserve |
Bottom Track SU717879 |
1 |
|
31 degrees |
Flying at head height along track in valley
bottom |
|
4/7/06 |
Dennis Dell |
Finemere Wood |
SP718218 |
3 |
4.15 to 6.30 |
30 degrees |
Flying and perching fairly low on Oaks just south of
turning circle; observed for 15 minutes |
|
4/7/06 |
Alan Showler |
Downley |
SU842946; grassy bank, above road, backed by trees |
1 f |
3 pm |
Very hot |
Coming down and landing on grass in the shade, probably
seeking moisture; not flying strongly: affected by the heat? |
|
4/7/06 |
Mick Campbell |
Hell Coppice and Oakley Wood |
Oak trees lining field edge at SP612106. SP611117; tree tops near the gate in the Oakley Car Park |
2m, 1f |
5 to 6 pm |
Hot & sunny |
200 yards north of Hell coppice old car park along the
track to the location where big Oak trees line the edge of a field. One
large female Iris seen there. It landed briefly quite low down
in an oak tree, about 30' up Oakley car park: 2
male Iris in the usual oak trees near the gate. A brief period of
combat, then they glided about 25' above the edge of the track
& then across it & disappeared. |
|
4/7/06 |
D Ferguson |
Wendover Woods |
wide dry ride bounded by mature beech (SP883076) |
1m |
11.40 for 10 mins. In the wood for 2.5 hrs |
Sunny |
Flew low SW along track landing 3 times, resting for c1-3
mins each time. Disappeared E into garden of Picket Piece. |
|
5/7/06 |
O.T.Lewis |
Wytham Woods (permit required) |
Singing Way/ The Plantation. Wide gravel ride SP466074 |
1 m |
10.30 for 15 minutes |
Sunny intervals, calm ~20C |
Settling on moist gravel ride and probing with proboscis |
|
6/7/06 |
Dennis Dell |
Finemere Woods |
At turning circle [SP718219] and at northern edge
[SP715222] |
3 |
3.45 to 5.45 |
24 degrees, cloud and sun no wind |