Noar Hill - 11th Aug 2018
If I thought the end of the Brown Hairstreak season had finished early at Noar Hill I could not have been more wrong. I visited again today and found an absolutely fine, fresh female (only my second here this year). She landed on the hedgerow beside the last entrance gate to the reserve. Blackthorn is one feature of this hedgerow and although she was not actually egg-laying in any of the pics I took of her, nevertheless she must have been thinking about it.
This brings my total at Noar Hill this year to 17; increasing my personal annual record for this species.
Also one of the many Speckled Woods allowed me to get within a couple of cm of its face with a camera.
Also seen – Red Ad, L&S&GV White, MB&G, Small Heath, Common Blues still in abundance after the rain of the last two days and four Holly Blue (3m+1f). Plus Mint Moth and a Carpet Moth of some kind. No pics.
Non-butterfly Snapshot of the day
The Hazelnuts are just starting to ripen at Noar Hill now.