mountain ringlet: Cumbria June '21

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An eclectic mix from todays tour of West Wiltshire sites

Also met up with David M. Glad you connected with the Glanvilles David.”

Any ideas who is releasing the Glanville’s at this site and why??

For the 2020 comp, my efforts.

Grizzled Skipper today at Ubley Warren in Somerset, thought it might be the first for the county, but see that the first was logged over a week ago! Also a couple of redstarts there today, which are always very nice to see.

3 or 4 purple emperors about at Fermyn woods this weekend, along with purple hairstreaks, white admirals and silver-washed fritillaries. Also at Monk's wood in Cambs, black hairstreak still showing and plenty of silver-washed fritillary again too.

Rgds, Alex

Just returned from a week in Pembrokeshire with the fammo and during that time saw a few interesting butterflies. Couldn't find the post again on here that I read a while back, but think it was Willrow's post re silver-studded blues near Stackpole/Bosherston. For interest and just to add to that inf...

Thanks guys for the comments, I'm quite pleased to have found my first Essex, though have to confess that I didn't even notice until I had looked through my pics! Just goes to show the value of a camera in the field!
Cheers, Alex

plenty of butterflies around the Bath area the last 2 days, countless numbers of small skippers, plenty of marbled whites and a few white letter hairstreaks. Took a pic of this little chap too (skipper sp.) and got my suspicions that it's an Essex skipper, though never seen one before - can someone ...

a short (20 mins) walk along the lower S - facing slope of Fontmell Down yesterday produced a few adonis blues with common blue and brown argus, as well as many dark green fritillarys and small heaths. This was a casual watch without counting numbers or looking too hard for species, but there were v...

A few Dukes were showing at Buckland Wood this weekend during a nice (and rare) break in the weather.