{"id":2059334,"date":"2019-06-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=15eef6e48181903ae134d8de2d7c9c44"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:48:06","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mountain Marsh Runners aka Broad-billed Sandpipers have started passing through South East Norway the last couple of days. There are only a handful of sites with annual records of this scarce species and one of them is \u00c5rnestangen. So, I set off on the long walk with high hopes this morning.<\/p>\n

My hopes gradually became lower and lower on the walk out when there was no sign of any migration whatsoever. Arriving at the end of the peninsula there was a particular dearth of birds and I had to work very hard to find any waders at all with just a single Dunlin and Ringed Plover being migrants. This is all part of the game but at this time of year one always hopes for a bit more.<\/p>\n

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a female Orange Tip (aurorasommerfugl). From above it can be confused with the other whites but the pattern of the underside of the lower wing is distinctive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the walk back I did hear a brief snatch of \u201csong\u201d from my first Corncrake of the year plus seeing my first Swift which is a late first record.<\/p>\n

Whilst Beast walking I had a singing Icterine Warbler near the house which will deserve some more attention.<\/p>\n

The lack of birds today is highlighted by the face that I will show pictures of butterflies instead.<\/p>\n

Three different Painted Ladies was a big surprise although there seems to have been an arrival recently. I always thought of this butterfly as a late summer migrant.<\/p>\n

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the first Painted Lady (tistelsommerfugl) I saw. This individual was very tatty and the upperparts which I didn’t manage to get a picture of were pale and bleached<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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the second Painted Lady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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which looked to be nice and fresh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and the third one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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which was also quite fresh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and a Green-veined White (rapssommerfugl)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Stoat (r\u00f8yskatt). This one had something in its mouth but I didn’t manage to see what it had taken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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