A group of us visited Twywell Hills on Saturday after starting the day at Paxton Pits looking for Nightingale of which we had good views. we were hoping for Grizzled Skipper and good numbers of Green Hairstreak at Twywell, but we only saw a single Green Hairstreak. We covered the area known as 'The ...

Hi Oy,
were the Scotch Argus easy at Arnside, is there a specific place to look for them, I'm hoping to try and get up there again in couple of weeks.
I've only ever checked the 'meadow' area where I have only seen plenty of D G Frits.

Cheers

Paul

We went looking at the local P Hairstreak colony this evening hoping to get one or two down at low-level for photo's but as is typical of this species they were all watched as they fed on the uppermost leaves of the Oak / Ash. Only once did a couple come low down when they were 'spiralling' but they...

Yes thanks again Pete, I have never been able to pick out the differences that ID guides tell you to look for.

Myself and three friends were in Cumbria on Sunday, we visited Gait Barrows and as soon as we started on the Yew Trail had two 'probable' H B Frit on brambles in the sunny open areas of the trail. We only saw the uppersides and very briefly as we found they weren't approachable. We were also searchi...

Hi
we had at least 5 Black Hairstreak in Whitecross Green Wood and 1 Wood White on 17th June. The Hairstreak were feeding on Blackthorn about 100yds from the car park on the right hand side as you walk past the logbook. I think there had been over 10 seen earlier that day.