I visited Hazelbury Common today looking for chalk hill blues. There was a guy there logging species who said there were a couple of dark green fritillaries near the bottom of the common. I eventually spotted one but couldn't pin it down for a photo, then I saw another fritillary-like butterfly that was substantially smaller, about meadow brown in size, and nope, no photo here either as I lost sight of it when it flew over a hedge into a cow pasture. Any suggestions as to what it might be? There seemed to be a row of whitish spots at the bottom of each rear wing. The rest was a frit-like brown and black mottling.
Other sightings posted in the requisite forum.