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Any way it was a day of surprises and disappointments , when we arrived at the knot it was to grey sky's and spots of rain, we didn't know what to expect but to our surprise when we walked through the gate from the car park the first thing we saw flying about was a DGF
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I got one are two shots before it landed down into the grass, that's when I noticed the other DGF, this one was keeping low in the grass but was much darker than the first which was flying around it, I managed to get a shot of the second one before it disappeared
over the ferns, the difference between the two is stark, the first DGF looks quite faded in parts where has the other one looked quite fresh, trouble is I only got one shot of it.
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We decided to have our sandwiches and wait to see if the Sun would finally arrive
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After lunch we set off back through the gate and down the path through the ferns this time, we searched for the High Brown Fritillaries for ages, when the Sun finally came out what a difference, we saw a couple of Small Tort's , Small Skipper's , lot's of Whites, also the HBF's about three but sadly no photos
they no sooner landed than they flew off again, finally we decided to give up and check out Gait Barrow hoping we might see some there and that the Graylings could be out.
At GB we didn't see any HBF but we met some people who'd seen one that was also in bad shape but they'd managed to get some shots of it, they'd been up there for a few days and said how bad the weather'd been.
We walked back along the path to the Lime Stone and found the Graylings so at least after some really depressing days of nothing but wind and rain it'd been great just to get out again. Goldie
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