anthea fleming wrote:
We
also noticed quite good numbers of Caper White Butterflies, blown in
over the Ranges from the inland.
Hi Anthea
I was amazed to see *Alphington absolutely crammed with Caper Whites
when I looked out the lounge window yesterday morning - and the
northerly still blowing! Later in the day I walked from Alphington to
Fairfield with baby Marta, and it really seemed more like summer - lots
of Garden Skinks Lampropholis guichenoti, Spotted (Delias
aganippe) and Imperial Jezabel (D. harpalyce) butterflies,
the legions of Caper Whites (Anapheis java), Australian Painted
Ladies (Vanessa kershawi) and Admirals (V. itea), Common
Browns (Heteronympha merope), ubiquitous Cabbage Whites (Pieris
rapae) - a bumper crop!
A bird reference then ... has anyone in Melbourne seen/heard any
White-browed/Masked Woodswallows overhead yet? This usually goes
hand-in-hand with the Caper White influxes.
L.
* (inner Melbourne between the city and Ivanhoe where Anthea lives)
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