I am organizing a trip primarily to photograph Dark Green Fritillary and Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies on the North Yorkshire Moors, near Pickering, on Sunday 4th July meeting at 10.00am - weather permitting! Cost will be £15 per person. I will be on hand to give advice and attendees are welcome to borrow my Nikon camera equipment. Your own compact flash memory card would then be useful to pop in my cameras so you could take your images home with you. Both closeup/macro lenses and telephoto lenses are useful to photograph these butterflies. Compact digital cameras with macro capabilities would also work well as the Dark Green Fritillary in particular is quite a large butterfly.
Please click on the photo montage above for a larger version. All these photos were taken on the North Yorkshire Moors. We will be likely to see Dark Green Fritillary (pictured top), Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (two images below), Whinchat and Golden-ringed Dragonfly (third row down). Also likely to be present are Small Copper, Small Skipper, Small Heath and Large Heath butterflies. The walk is over even moorland paths and we won't need to cover great distances to see the wildlife.
If you would like to continue your day out, Goathland, Whitby, Thornton-le-Dale, the Dalby Forest and many places of interest for sightseeing, lunch and walking are all nearby. For those interested in going on to look for Red Grouse after lunch (please bring a packup) you are welcome to follow me in your own car to another site on the moors where we will hopefully see Grouse by the roadside.
Attendees will have to make their own way to the meeting site near Pickering on the day. Please call or e-mail if you would be interested in the North Yorkshire Moors trip: photography@mgcvk.karoo.co.uk / 07866 316577.
