Hello and many thanks for your kind comments.
211 is very high day count for the first brood - I had to cover a lot of ground to reach it!
I've looked back at my notebooks and I've certainly never seen more first brood Coppers in a day since 2012. I've a sneaking suspicion that 2010 was better but since I moved home 18 months ago I haven't been able to find my 2010 notebook : I will let you know when ( if ! ) I find it!
Something told me that Pip wasn't going to be left behind today
Dungeness is a sea of Sorrel
The tasty fresh leaves poking up through a cake of lichen.
But my goodness it was cold there today! Bright sunshine (mostly) but a strong chilly wind blowing. It felt like a bright winter's day.
And the Coppers were understandably less conspicuous than on thursday last
I put Pip to work sniffing them out
And we managed to count 63 during our walk
My favourite was this handsomely marked fellow
No rare beetles today but when you've got Small Coppers it's always a superb day