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Thank you, Trevor. It's certainly very sheltered down there. I went there again after seeing you up at High & Over and down on that path there wasn't a breath of wind and it was very warm indeed. If it stays frost-free by the water then who knows what might survive.
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Thanks, Buggy. Mill Hill coming up! (Though Neil H. has got in there with a stonking post about today's explosion of Walls up there...
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On Monday 10th September before my visit to the unusual bit of Sussex seaside, I had dropped into Mill Hill for a look around. It was very windy with few sheltered nooks today, though warm in the sunshine. The butterflies took a while to get going and most were concentrated in the same corner as usual on the main slopes towards the northern end. However, there were other spots on the less steep grassy areas and paths at the top on the hillside which produced butterflies too. However, I saw no Walls in any of the places I walked, and judging from Neil's report from today I must have been just a few days early.
There was plenty else to see though. The main attraction for me was a Clouded Yellow (just the one, though), which spent a lot of time in the sheltered bit mentioned earlier, nectaring on the buddleias or occasionally dropping to the ground when the sun went in. It would then set off on a long loop across the hillside before returning again to repeat the process. There is no point chasing a Clouded Yellow, I've decided.
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