Janet - Thanks. Its always nice to get a different angle if its possible and when this one presented itself - I could not resist!

Wurzel - Thanks also. This is getting to be one of my better butterfly years and we are still in June!

Cheers

Alice Holt Woods - 23 June 2018 - Part 2 The Purple Emperor on the ground was fantastic as always but it was not the only thing today. Yesterday there were three Silver-washed Frits and today there were six, but two were already mating. DSCF7578.JPG DSCF7580.JPG Yesterday the SWFs just would not sta...

Alice Holt Woods - 23 June 2018 Well the Purple Emperors may not have stopped for me yesterday but today it was a whole new ball-game. One came down to the ground and after licking something dungy for awhile decided to have a rest and so perched around head height on a nearby tree giving us lucky ob...

Odiham Common 22nd June 2016 I am exhausted. I went to three locations today starting with Odiham Common. This is a little known grass and flower meadow bordered by woods. A few locals walk their dogs here but for such a large area of land a short walk from the town of Odiham it is surprising how fe...

Lovely Heath Frits, Janet and what a beautifully atmospheric pic of Glastonbury Tor!

The Purple Emperors are out at Alice Holt. I have just seen a male "barrelling" down the main path of the Straits Enclosure, it came past me at a cracking pace at about knee high but did not stop so no pics. I followed with binoculars until it flew out of sight. On my return along the same...

Thanks, Dave and Mike. Yes its a bit crazy at the moment. The Purple Emps will be out at Alice Holt any minute and that usually requires repeated visits, then there is the Purple Hairstreak to track down again and I want to see if I can improve my White-letter Hairstreak pics. I am even toying with ...

Dave - Great shot of a White Ad on a pile of dung. I always find the juxtaposition of a beautiful butterfly on something gross amusing.

Old Winchester Hill - 21st June 2018 Today my target species were Marbled White, Dark Green Fritillary, Ringlet and Small Skipper because so far this year I had seen none of these. By the end of the day I had seen dozens of Marbled White and Ringlet, 1 Small Skipper and 2 DG Frits. So - all targets ...

Neil - amazing pictures of Large Blues, especially the mating pair. I use to live in the village of Chalford which is just a stones-throw from Daneway but that was 20 years ago - before I got into butterflies and I think before they were re-introduced there. Now its a four hour round trip from where...

What a great place that is Wurzel. Marshies, Walls and mating Adonis (not to mention the others you saw). The variety is amazing.

Hooray. Purple Pics. Love them all Trevor but the one I like the most is the distance shot of him perched high up scanning the horizon.

Fantastic Large Blues, Janet. I would have to make a four hour round trip to see them. Not something I can do at the moment. I am even more envious because I have never seen one. I remember when I was a kid I collected wildlife cards from tea packets and for some reason, I don't know why - the pictu...

Wurzel - Its the first time I have seen such a thing. It flew around OK - no problem.

David - And the numbers are still on the increase too! There were 312 in and around the Broxhead lek yesterday with a further 113 between the lek and the lake. Good luck at your location.

Cheers

Today the Broxhead Blues where doing quite a lot of wing-rolling. It was 21 degrees C, mainly overcast but with some sun and a light breeze. Both males and females were at it, wings open, ajar and closed. One female was really going for it. Not only was she wing-rolling her hind-wings and doing the ...

Broxhead Common - 19th June 2018 – 9am-10am Overcast, humid, very light breeze, 18 degrees C I had not done a count of the Silver-studded Blues for two days due to cool, overcast weather but yesterday I did between 3 pm and 4 pm and then there seemed to be a decline in numbers. Not so today! The num...

Andrew - Thanks. I was over the moon with the fresh WLH that came down at Noar Hill. I was there looking for Brown Hairstreaks actually (a bit early in the year it must be said) and at first I thought this was a male Brown one until I looked more closely. My camera does not have a very good zoom but...

Love your Marshie underwing shots, Wurzel. I only have pics of them from above so far.

Chawton House Estate - 19th June 2018 Chawton House 99.JPG Thanks to Paul Harfield for the heads-up on how to find the White-letter Hairstreaks at Chawton. I am very happy because Chawton is a village that is right next to Alton, the town where I live. If I was younger and fitter I could walk to thi...

dilettante - a very good point. there are a lot of reptiles at Broxhead heath. Indeed I have seen many Common Lizard nearby and on occasion even a Sand Lizard.