Now
that's a challenge
Dave ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
. The collages aren't too difficult to create and its enjoyable to sift through my pictures to pick ones to use, especially on cold winter evenings such as those we're enduring at the moment
Spring 2022
May 2022. More trips to my favourite Springtime haunts added nine more species to the yearly tally. Adonis Blues didn’t seem to have the best season, at least at the sites I visited.
More trips to Duke country gave me Common Blues and Brown Argus.
Also, in the same hillside at Ivinghoe Beacon as last year (and according to the people in the know, for the last five years), Marsh Fritillary flew again, presumably the result of an unofficial introduction. On two visits I counted just single figures. Whether they will manage to survive long term remains to be seen.
At nearby Pitstone Quarry, Small Blues did well
And a return visit to Park Corner Heath I found a handful of Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary. As they have seemingly gone extinct at Abbots Wood again, this is now the only site I can reach in a day to see them. My feeling is that Abbots Wood is currently too dry a site for them.
The three remaining species to make an appearance were the Large Skipper, Meadow Brown and Painted Lady. The former two the species that signal the change from Spring to summer for me.