A very nice selection of species from Romania, David, especially the Scarce Fritillary. How many of those are lifers for you?

Great to see the SSB's are out, Katrina, nice shots of both the males and a lovely female

Great shots of the SPBF, Black Hairstreaks and Heath Fritillaries in your recent diary posts, Trevor I shan't be seeing any of those this year

Excellent Black Hairstreaks from Epsom Common, Dave, and lovely shots one I won't be seeing this year unfortunately.

I don't necessarily think that you are paranoid, ernie. A week ago we were chatting to a guy at a Wiltshire site who told us this story. He had found a couple of Marsh Fritillary abs on another well known Wiltshire site. Hoping to show his friend they returned a few days later. While searching for t...

Fantastic ab BB well found

You managed to get some great underside shots of the Small Blues and Grizzlies at Martin Down, Wurzel, in spite of the 'Great British' weather
Martin Down seems to be our nemesis site for Leps, three visits and not very much seen

Cheers, Wurzel, they were fresh, but not large numbers :? The weather can make or break a site visit, it's a shame that it was the wrong way round for you yesterday :( It went against us in my next post and it's a pain when you're travelling a reasonable distance :roll: Green Down 6th June After kee...

Cheers,Wurzel, and thanks for the info. re. the Local Marsh Frits :) That Mother Shipton was behaving oddly for sure, or maybe I Photoshopped out the grass stems :wink: :lol: Cotley 29th May As there was not much happening at Figsbury I thought there was just time to pay another visit to Cotley. Lea...

You did much better with the Pearls than we did, Wurzel I'd forgotten just how difficult they can be

Yes the third one was a good looking Frit, Wurzel, shame it didn't open it's wings fully. Lydlinch is ten minutes from Alners Gorse. Are the Marsh Frits at the Odstock site a release? I've wanted to visit Lydlinch for a while so made the most of being in Salisbury at the moment. It's a more traditio...

Thanks, Katrina, our timing was bang on and it was nice to see all those Grizzlies too. Cheers, Wurzel, I was beginning to wonder about Martin Down but your comment explains IT all :? We saw the grazing sheep, it looked a right mess! Yes Compton is a fabulous site especially with the badges on the r...

Yes, Wurzel, Marsh Frits show a good range of variation. The variation even between 'your' female, and 'ours' with its more muted colours is amazing.

That's a pretty good start, David, to say the least! That Woodland Brown underside is stunning

Compton Down 20th May We were toying with the idea of visiting the Isle of Wight specifically to see the Glanville Fritillaries, but as we were due to house/dogs/cats/kids sit for our son, in Sussex for a week, we would be unable to fit in a visit to the Isle. But I remembered that Compton had rece...

Thanks, Katrina, the groundings were not nice, but it was worth it to see the Dukes. Thanks, EB, it's a shame you weren't aware of the Duke site, as you could have timed the visits to your sister's to coincide with their flight period. Thank you, Goldie, I hope you soon find plenty of Heath Fritilla...

Lovely photos and a nice selection of species from Hutchinson's Bank, Katrina somewhere I've yet to visit.

I could have waved to you both from thirty miles south west Nice ab. BB


Report to follow in my PD soon.

Nice to see you've joined the 'in cop' Hairstreak club too

Nice shots of the mating Hairstreaks, not so easy to get clear photos in low light levels