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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Charlie boy looks like he's on death's door in this pic!

Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some butterflies from previous summers - there were practically none this year as it was often too hot for them and in any case many flowering plants on which they depend died in the heat and drought

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm with Tony Benn on this one

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Probably my favourite butterfly pic Two marbled whites for the price of one!

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have been trying to catch one of these taking off for some time and finally... This is the dramatic black winged electric blue bodied male version

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's a stream near where I live in Luxembourg which supports a population of "Beautiful Demoiselle" damsel flies (Calopteryx virgo). Until recently, I had only ever observed males with their almost black wings and electric blue bodies but a few days ago females started appearing.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Looks like a Jersey Tiger to me - Euplagia quadripunctaria. Not usually seen as far north as Britain but with climate change... Gorgeous colourful chaps when they reveal their scarlet waistcoat!

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of these I think - a Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A very GREEN visitor to my Dahlia flowers today.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Always love to see the first few Painted Ladies in the garden

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Good to see that for once, butterflies seem to be doing well this year. This one is a Brimstone

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I have been hoping to catch one taking off ever since I have been photographing these chaps

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My hobby is photography & my favourite prey is the Beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo). I have loads of shots of males with their black wings & electric blue bodies but not a single shot of the light brown females - until today when I went down to the stream & found 4 or 5 females & some males

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

No! The sort of snails in our garden at least, numerous though they may be, are not of the sort that are usually eaten. Some of them are rather handsome though compared to the standard British snail

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

On my morning wander around the bucolic block, I cam across a cat that had just caught a mouse (poor thing) that was still alive and trying to get away - I don't think it made it! Also a few metres further on a marbled white feeding on a thistle.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Seems to be a very good year for the "Beautiful Demoiselle" Calopteryx virgo. They seem quite numerous this year compared to past years. Usually, I find one solitary one hunting around our local stream but this year I have seen several males together fighting over territory.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Photo taken at the Lallenger open cast mining site, now a nature reserve. The site is either forest, where there is sufficient topsoil or dry heathland with only about 1 - 5 cm of soil over the bedrock which is where I found this. Apparently it is: Himantoglossum hircinum The Lizard Orchid

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Snapped today in the Lallenger open cast mining site in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, which is now a nature reserve incorporating scores of hectares of dry grassland/heathland (pelouse seche); quite a rare habitat. A wild Pyramidal Orchid.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A close-up of the seed head of a dandelion

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We have a pair who nest high on the spire of the church opposite me. One of them deigned to pose for me a couple of years back

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ahhhhh - this year's first strawberry flower has appeared despite us still having some very sharp night-time frosts.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Every year we see 100s of these bright red bugs in our garden. They are called Firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) for reasons best known to themselves they form huge agglomerations of 100s of individuals. In this case, they accumulated on some charred timber which shows them up rather well!

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

and this is a Lemon Pansy taken in Chiang Mai in Thailand Junonia lemonia, I believe

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I think the question may be would the Green party want such people? Seriously, I can only imagine that they were never really Reform voters, just voters protesting against the other two parties who had no where else to go so with the Greens resurgent - now they do have a worthwhile alternative!

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A stream rises from the limestone bedrock in a hill near where I live and the resulting stream fairly quickly becomes a small river. Every year I see some "Beautiful Demoiselle" damsel flies hunting over the stream I was lucky enough to catch this (male) one with a camera.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I read somewhere that Lychee plants are easy to grow from the pits inside that fruit. It's true, and they are very attractive plants but not frost hardy at all.

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I have spotted my first buttfly of the year - a Brimstone like this (but not this one)

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Paul Brownjohn @paulbj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I fear that average american red-neck sees trump and his ilk as role models!

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