It’s been almost 5 months since I last updated this website. This is partly because the lousy weather has restricted my opportunities to get out looking for butterflies, and partly because life gets in the way and I simply haven’t had the time. However, the recent period of absolutely awful weather here, especially on weekends, …
It’s been almost a year since I updated this website. I didn’t die from COVID; I didn’t even catch it (not yet anyway). I did have a very disappointing season around Sydney, followed by a disappointing and very wet trip to Cairns at the end of April. Since then I’ve been very time-poor, so I …
This month has been a bit more successful than October, though I have still made some visits to sites in the Sydney area that were so disappointing as to not be worth mentioning. The trips described below were the better ones… 04/11/2020 : Bell My second visit to Bell this season came 3 weeks after …
It’s been a while since my last update, and that’s because there hasn’t been all that much to report. I’ve been out to a number of butterfly sites around Sydney this Spring, but there haven’t been many butterflies to see. I’ve had days where I walked for 6 or 7 hours and got no photos …
New species and subspecies. It’s been a long time since I updated this website, largely because the COVID-19 lockdowns prevented me from getting out at all during the autumn. Things are a lot less restricted now in NSW, but it’s winter so there isn’t much on the wing. Whilst I haven’t been out butterflying, I …
I hadn’t been to Cairns for two years but I found myself with some time on my hands, so when Nils Beaven from Australian Butterflies Conservation invited me to join him for a few days of butterflying in that area I booked some flights and headed up to Far North Queensland. The weather had been …
It’s been a long time since I updated my blog, and that’s because there hasn’t really been all that much going on. It’s not been a good butterfly season so far in the Sydney area. As everyone in the world knows (except for one guy living in an underground bunker 50 miles outside Des Moines …
I have updated my Photo Gallery with the photos from my 3 most recent butterflying trips, namely : Bell in the upper Blue Mountains on 07/10/2019. This was the earliest I’ve been to this site. Bell again on 20/10/2019; the second earliest I’ve been there. Shoal Bay on 27/10/2019 – the day after doing some …
I have updated the Photo Gallery with the photos from my 3 most recent butterflying trips, namely : Glenbrook and Emu Plains on 01/09/2019 Ingleburn and Mount Annan Botanic Garden on 15/09/2019 Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park at Duffys Forest on 21/09/2019; this being my first full-on Butterhiking day this season. The following species pages have …
In June 2019 my wife and I spent around 8 days at West Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada. It was just a short trip to attend a family wedding (which was great by the way), but I took my camera along just in case I got any opportunities to go butterhiking. Naturally family events took …
