Thanks Neil. Pleased you enjoyed the Blues, it's also one of the best sites I know for them.
Cheers Ben. Thanks for your complementary comment, and for your dedicated work with
the early life stages of the Purple Emperor. We are owed some good sessions with them
this season after the tricky years of 2020/21. I see you and the other experts are predicting
an earlier flight this year. Can't wait!.
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Early yesterday morning I drove over to Horseshoe Plantation for a quieter session with
the grassland species. Surprisingly the only Adonis I saw was a pristine female but she gave me the slip.
It was something of a novelty to find a brown female Common Blue. A mid life Grizzled Skipper
was one of only a few seen by me this year.
This afternoon I went for a wander around Rowland Wood. To say that the place had a June gap
feel about it would be an understatement, all I saw was a very old Dingy Skipper, and a fresh
male Large Skipper. A bonus was in the form of a Dragon Fly, a female Broad Bodied Chaser.
Obtaining a image of it was a real challenge as it proved difficult to get close enough for
a shot without sending it up.
Trevor.