I have never seen Silver Spotted Skippers or Chalkhill Blues before - we don't get anything as exotic up here in Derbyshire! On arrival at 9:30 it was quite cool with not much flying but just as I said it was time to move to a different area we saw our first SS Skipper followed by about 20 Chalkhill Blues. In the next hour the place seemed full of butterflies - in total we saw about 10 SS Skippers, about 25 Chalkhill Blues, countless Meadow Browns and Gatekeepers and a Small Heath and Brown Argus.
Then on to Whitecross Green where we saw 2 Brown Hairstreaks, Small Copper, Peacock, Comma and numerous whites and finally as we were about to leave a beautiful Brimstone.
Some pictures follow:
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199524/SSSkipper.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199537/SSSkipperUnderside2.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199612/SSkipper.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199563/ChalkhillBlueMale.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199624/ChalkhillBlueFemale2.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199630/ChalkhillBlueFemale.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199632/ChalkhillMating.jpg)
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/199634/BHairstreak.jpg)
All in all a very satisfying day!!