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We had a fantastic day out yesterday (decided to take the day off work as it was forecast to be a nice day) firstly at Aston Rowant and in the afternoon at Whitecross Green.

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:

















All in all a very satisfying day!!

Would you mind saying where on the reserve you saw the silver spotted skippers? I'm going to visit the site in the near future and hope to get a few pics.
Cheers
Dave

I made my first trip ever to Aston Rowant yesterday afternoon and it did everything it said on the can. Here are a few pictures:








Thanks for looking..............Dave

Nice pics Dave - glad you had a good day.