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After spending the morning at my younger daughter’s pre-school I had to head back to work for two whole lessons! As I was travelling over my lunchtime and it was apparent that I wouldn’t be back in time to join my team mates for 5-aside against the year 10’s I pulled into Woodhenge for 10 minutes.
This site at around this time last year had Meadow Browns, Marbled Whites and Small Skippers. Today I found a very small moth and four butterflies. I know it was pretty windy and the sun was a bit hit or miss, and I was there for a very short time, but I had kinda hoped for a few more than four. I am really starting to worry now because there just don’t seem to be the numbers of butterflies.
The micro moth was a tiny yet intricately patterned moth... Two of the butterflies were Small Heaths that whizzed by along the tops of the long grasses and would then dip down and disappear. Then I was visited a couple of times by an Adonis Blue, my first of the year, and looking pretty tidy/fresh. The path I was on must have been recently mown as the grass was very close cropped and I knelt down to get an eye level view of the longer grasses. The Adonis would skim across the top of the grass heads and then as it reached the path it would plummet to earth, dropping like a stone to land in a crumpled, yet attractive heap. Twice I was privy to this unusual behaviour, it was almost as if the tall grasses offered the flying insect some form of upthrust? Finally with time ticking on and tutor time beckoning I had to head back onto the road but not before stopping to get a contrastingly worn Common Blue taking on some much needed fuel. So tomorrow looks pants but I might be able to swing a few visits next week during the evenings weather permitting (Slop Bog hopefully and the usual Five Rivers) and of course Sunday is Father’s Day – so I’ll keep my fingers crossed for some nice weather and possibly I can get out before family commitments at lunchtime?
Have a goodun
Wurzel