Brown Hairstreak did very well at Netherclay LNR, Taunton this year. I led a BC Somerset & Bristol Branch field meeting to the site on 19th Aug. and we recorded 12 females. My annual egg-count is now in its fifth year and all records were broken on 1st Dec. when I recorded 496 , more than double...

Taunton VC5. I watched the same ragged female egg-laying on both November 29th and 30th. I am monitoring these eggs and will report again in due course.

Sunday 11th November. Taunton. VC5.
Six Red Admirals found in the Bishops Hull area of Taunton today three of which were egg-laying.
In recent years I have recorded egg-laying here in every month October - March apart from January.

Sunday 6th November.
My daughter and I found an egg-laying Red Admiral at Roughmoor, Taunton today. I saw one egg-laying in the same area on 16th October, unfortunately those eggs that I kept an eye on failed to hatch.