tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post1921457679740937398..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: White-Letter DayNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54456286636448769252016-07-25T19:33:33.579+01:002016-07-25T19:33:33.579+01:00Wonderful, Waldonymous - it is a very special kind...Wonderful, Waldonymous - it is a very special kind of revisiting, isn't it, quite magical...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-60574946568037576412016-07-25T04:16:15.087+01:002016-07-25T04:16:15.087+01:00Keep the butterflies coming; winter will be here s...Keep the butterflies coming; winter will be here soon enough! <br /><br />I've just returned from a week hiking the Sawtooth Wilderness in Idaho, a few miles from my boyhood home. My return to a familiar landscape brought to mind your return to the butterfly grounds of your childhood. As a kid, I knew only those creatures I could shoot, trap or land with a baited hook: several dozen species of mammals, a dozen fish, maybe half that number of waterfowl. The only insects I knew were the flies and larvae favored by my piscine prey. Add a handful of tree species and the diamondback rattlesnake, and you have a full summary of my youthful knowledge of natural history.<br /><br />Now, well into my seventh decade, I have replaced the hunt with mellower pleasures afforded by songbirds, butterflies and wildflowers. It was thrilling to revisit, with eyes less blinkered and ears more attuned, a landscape so deeply imprinted in my memory.Waldonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-2638201506141322362016-07-23T13:38:06.042+01:002016-07-23T13:38:06.042+01:00Yes it seems there's always good news and bad ...Yes it seems there's always good news and bad in the butterfly world. It's been a funny old year too - but then it always is, the English summer being what it is. Things certainly look up as soon as the sun comes out and the mercury rises.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-83664897617790772942016-07-23T11:52:36.841+01:002016-07-23T11:52:36.841+01:00And I see that, at the opposite end of the altitud...And I see that, at the opposite end of the altitude scale (bogland), that the Large Heath is making a controlled comeback up in Lancashire. Can't take too much of this good news. Anybody seen a 'cabbage white' recently?mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.com