Small blue at Stoke Camp
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:51 pm
I visited Sand Point this morning looking for those glanville fritillaries. There were two other guys there looking for them and all three of us drew a blank. So either the wind kept them under cover or they're done for the year and I just missed them.
Undeterred, I drove over to Draycott and visited Stoke Camp in the hope of finding small blue. Two hours of very frustrating searching revealed four to six individuals and they would either not settle or disappear in long grass. Then finally I got this one below, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Also there were common blue, small heath, large skipper, grizzled skipper (tatty), dingy skipper, brown argus and a couple of very early and small meadow browns.
The small blues were in amongst the bracken down at the bottom right of the reserve at grid ref: ST48973 bearing 51073 which is wayfinder ST489510.
Undeterred, I drove over to Draycott and visited Stoke Camp in the hope of finding small blue. Two hours of very frustrating searching revealed four to six individuals and they would either not settle or disappear in long grass. Then finally I got this one below, so I'm chuffed to bits.
Also there were common blue, small heath, large skipper, grizzled skipper (tatty), dingy skipper, brown argus and a couple of very early and small meadow browns.
The small blues were in amongst the bracken down at the bottom right of the reserve at grid ref: ST48973 bearing 51073 which is wayfinder ST489510.