Clanger Wood

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eccles
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Clanger Wood

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I visited Clanger Wood today, looking for SW fritillary and found at least 50 including two valesina. Also there were half a dozen white admiral, lots of meadow brown and ringlet, a few marbled white, green veined white, large white, gatekeeper, large skipper, red admiral and comma, a single hummingbird hawk moth plus several migrant and brown hawker dragonflies. The white admirals were looking very tatty, many with bits of wings missing, but I didn't manage to photograph any of them anyway. I found that most of the photo opportunities were at the top of the wood. This is because the line of bramble is narrower here and the butterflies are closer to the path so you don't have to fight your way through thorns to get pics.
The adjacent Picket Wood also had SWF and WA but not as many as Clanger Wood. There was a young 'kinda wobbly' roe deer grazing along the path in Picket Wood.
The wood is on the A350 north of Westbury, near Yarnbrook.


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