First sighting for me of a common blue in the Bath Golf course quarry yesterday - very early again. Picture below.
In fact, I now have:
Dingy skipper: 25 days earlier than last year
Small Heath: 25
Small Copper: 16
Common Blue: 22
I did a quick analysis of the first sightings data on the butterfly conservation web site and came up with the following for the cumulative number of species sighted:
Things overall seem to be three weeks early, as at my local site. We've also past the halfway mark in terms of species sighted. Are you all keeping up?
Simon C
Common blue and early dates
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Thats someting. proves global warming does'nt it? The weather latley feels like summer weather. I mean 15-21 degrees C in spring? Thats something. Nice pic btw. Next thing to look out for would be the Large Tortoiseshell being early.
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I've updated my plot of the earliest sightings data from the Butterfly Conservation list. It clearly shows how things ground to a halt around the start of May, but that they have picked up again since and we're still a couple of weeks ahead of last year.
On that basis it must be worth a trip to Warleigh soon for SWF.
Simon
On that basis it must be worth a trip to Warleigh soon for SWF.
Simon