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Purple Hairstreak or Purple Emperor would also be nice but if I only see the sun I wont complain
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Charlie.
Agreed also. But it is quite a difficult place to find, especially the car park as you need to open and close some gates - this isn't obvious (may have changed though since my last visit in 2010) Map Ref of car park: SP599149. Reach via track opposite a lovely old cottage at: SP599150.I agree with the others that Whitecross Green is the better spot for Black Hairstreak.
Well, Charlie, you may well be the last person to ever see this species at that site.cjs wrote: I went to Sand Point the first four days of this month to see the Glanville Fririllary. Never found it till the last day when I saw three. I thought I was there in the peak flight time, but maybe the poor spring had something to do with that.
I'm certainly no challenge to anyone who takes pics but would like to share this record shot of it the only one I got.
Charlie.
Jack are you THE Jack Harrison from Norfolk
I knew Whitecross Green back in the 80s and there were certainly wood whites then. The last time I visited was 2006, when I photographed this one:Jack Harrison wrote:There used to be Wood Whites in Whitecross Green Wood but I believe they have gone now.
I completely agree - it had a very good population in the mid-2000s. Some theories are here: http://upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/R ... odell.html, but I'm not sure that any of them explain such a rapid decline.padfield wrote:I knew Whitecross Green back in the 80s and there were certainly wood whites then. Something has gone wrong if they have since disappeared.
indeed ... they sound more like wild guesses than theories, to me. Since the atmosphere is 80% nitrogen, I can only assume the writer actually means NOx but why Whitecross should be especially affected, I have no ideaPete Eeles wrote:I'm not sure that any of them explain such a rapid decline.
On my very first visit to Whitecross in June 2009, I was similarly reprimanded for carelessly putting a foot down off the mown stripe...Jack Harrison wrote:
A year or so before, I had met a man (as I recall, he was an Air Traffic Controller so we had spoken professionally in the past) who was adamant that nobody should step off the mown centre of the rides to avoid trampling of the long vegetation at the edges!
Jack