Silver Spotted Skippers and Brown Hairstreaks
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:00 pm
It's Sun Aug 10th and it's raining hard. Yesterday was worse.
I had planned to spend one day this weekend hunting SSSkippers on Broughton Down (in Hampshire) after some good advise from others in the know but once again I - like many of you - am frustrated by England in the summer.
I note that the Shipton Bellinger site is in the same vicinty and based on the site info I might attempt the Brown Hairstreak - make a day of it!!! However, these are not easy to locate and especially to photograph. I have not seen this species before either.
Do any of you have experience of this site and if so can you be a bit more specific as to where I should begin looking? Weather permitting I might still make this trip before these two species are on the wane. Grateful for any help.
First Peacock sighted in the garden on Friday and a Brimstone in v. good condition (Fri. was not too bad weather wise in the south-west.
Wavelea1
I had planned to spend one day this weekend hunting SSSkippers on Broughton Down (in Hampshire) after some good advise from others in the know but once again I - like many of you - am frustrated by England in the summer.
I note that the Shipton Bellinger site is in the same vicinty and based on the site info I might attempt the Brown Hairstreak - make a day of it!!! However, these are not easy to locate and especially to photograph. I have not seen this species before either.
Do any of you have experience of this site and if so can you be a bit more specific as to where I should begin looking? Weather permitting I might still make this trip before these two species are on the wane. Grateful for any help.
First Peacock sighted in the garden on Friday and a Brimstone in v. good condition (Fri. was not too bad weather wise in the south-west.
Wavelea1