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James-Champion.com | Following my ancestors in their adventurous footsteps! - Part 5
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. Thursday 26th November 2015. Gujarat – a dry state, in more ways than one! A few days ago, our central Indian sojourn reached an end, and we flew with IndiGo from Nagpur to Ahmedabad via Pune, arriving late in the afternoon. We were picked up by our driver Bhawani Singh, who launched us skillfully into the traffic of the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat. Our 200 km route took us to the bustling town of Bhavnagar, where we checked into the ...
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Tripwire for a Tiger | James-Champion.com
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. Tripwire for a Tiger. My new book, “Tripwire for a Tiger”, was formally launched in the U.K. during the WIGTOWN BOOK FESTIVAL on Thursday 4th October, 2012, at 19.00, in the County Buildings. In case you did not make it, please watch the video here below for further information, and a sneak preview from me for you. For further more detailed information about the book, please click here: Tripwire for a Tiger. Tripwire for a Tiger. Click on the image.
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James-Champion.com | Following my ancestors in their adventurous footsteps! - Part 20
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. Tuesday 13th August 2013. Today we visited an area near Dumfries which achieved notoriety during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak, as this was one of the sites where large numbers of cattle carcasses were disposed of by burning and burying. Out of this horror came a positive result for butterfly enthusiasts, as this blighted spot now harbours a new species for Scotland, the Essex Skipper,. Today’s beautiful Painted Lady. Saturday 10th August 2013. Durin...
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. TRIPWIRE FOR A TIGER. Lt General Baljit Singh, in. 8220;Most Indians of the post-1947 generations may not have even heard of Frederick Walter Champion (FWC), and much less of his Indian legacy. The anthology under review unveils FWC the man, who was first and foremost someone simply besotted with India’s wildernesses and all the denizens that inhabit those spaces, and therefore the messiah of our conservation movement”. To purchase your copy of. Wonderf...
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In the beginning | James-Champion.com
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. The story begins on a sunny morning in June 1870. My great grandfather, George Charles Champion ( GCC ) was on a day insect-collecting trip from his home in South London to the Isle of Sheppey, in the mouth of the River Thames. Just 19 years old, GCC was already a keen amateur entomologist, and to his great delight, he found a minute species of weevil,. Which he immediately recognised as being new to the British list. J J Walker in Naval uniform. This i...
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James Champion 1963 | James-Champion.com
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. I was born in 1963, and from a very young age became interested in wildlife perhaps I was indoctrinated by my father, but if so, it certainly worked. Unlike most toddlers, one of the first words I could say was. A tropical butterfly whose picture I had seen, hotly followed by Hutnatch, my private version of Nuthatch! JWSC at an early age! Brooke Bond tea card albums. The card showing Metamandana dido. A Golden-ringed Dragonfly on my fathers finger.
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My Butterflies | James-Champion.com
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. These galleries, split up into families or closely related groups within families, consist of photographs I have taken of butterflies, mainly since I bought my first digital camera in 2004. The majority have been taken in North-west Europe, with a few from Hungary (a butterfly-watchers’ paradise! Most pictures have been taken using a Nikon Coolpix 4500, and some using a Nikon D70s. Swallowtails, Apollos, Festoons. Nymphalidae - True Fritillaries. Digita...
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James-Champion.com | Following my ancestors in their adventurous footsteps! - Part 10
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. Saturday 6th September 2014. Dusky and Scarce Large Blue video ready! After a long silence on my blog, I am now ready to add a short video compilation of the two rare Large Blue butterfly species that are associated with the Great Burnet plant,. The Scarce Large Blue. And the Dusky Large Blue. Friday 11th July 2014. The weekend was an illustration of how narrow the window of opportunity to see particular species of butterfly can be. The first weeken...
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James-Champion.com | Following my ancestors in their adventurous footsteps! - Part 3
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F W Champion 1893 – 1970. G C Champion 1851 – 1927. Thursday 17th December 2015. Although our experience of wildlife watching on the Little Rann of Kutch was generally positive, with excellent sightings made of animals and birds going about their business peacefully, and us observing them from a suitable distance and not disturbing them, a case concerning Indian Striped Hyaenas came to our attention that I found deeply distressing and distasteful. A Striped Hyaena photographed by F W Champion in the 1920s.