I'm hoping to visit the above when the frits are flying.
Would appreciate any directions.
Thanks
High Brown Frit in Malvern Hills anyone?
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Jack O'Neill
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High Brown Frit in Malvern Hills anyone?
Jack O'Neill
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Can be seen anywhere in the whole length of the Malverns. Not visited since early 80s but then there were good numbers at the southern end of the hills flying over the steeper grassy bracken covered southern slopes. Maybe different now. Good luck.
I also saw good numbers on Arnside but that was in 1970 and flying in good numbers with the other Arnside speciality ~ similar terrain to the Malverns although on vastly different rocks....
There are/were a number of specimens in a collection in Gloucester Museum from several wooded localities in the Cotswolds from around 1933 ~ I made notes from the data labels when viewing these specimens as a schoolboy in the mid-1950s. Most of those 1930s woodland areas have been changed considerably due to commercial forestry activities since then.
It can sometimes be seen in Glo'shire but those are almost certainly strays from the nearby Malverns ....
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I also saw good numbers on Arnside but that was in 1970 and flying in good numbers with the other Arnside speciality ~ similar terrain to the Malverns although on vastly different rocks....
There are/were a number of specimens in a collection in Gloucester Museum from several wooded localities in the Cotswolds from around 1933 ~ I made notes from the data labels when viewing these specimens as a schoolboy in the mid-1950s. Most of those 1930s woodland areas have been changed considerably due to commercial forestry activities since then.
It can sometimes be seen in Glo'shire but those are almost certainly strays from the nearby Malverns ....
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