What to do? Your input required.

[Rogerdodge]

Dear List
I have a day off from my grindingly boring desk based (in a windowless office ) job tomorrow.
I cannot decide where to go.
My optiond are -
1, Collard Hill for Large Blue - 1.5 hrs there, and 1.5 hours back
2, Glapthorne/Brampton for Black Hairstreak - 4 hours there and 4 hours back
3, Hants for Adonis, Small Blue etc - SPBs in woods and whatever else Bentley Wood/Stockbridge can throw up. 2 hours there, 2 hours back.
4, Somewhere else (advice please)
I have to be bak in North Devon at 19:30 for a poker tournament.

I shall take the majority decision at 05:00 tomorrow morning.

I shall Blog via my new Iphone on this thread during the day.

Thanks (in anticipation) for your input.

[selbypaul]

Weather forecast is good, so for me, it would have to be Glapthorne

[Rogerdodge]

OK - Collard Hill it is. That's good, I had hoped it would be! More later.

[Rogerdodge]

Collard Hill
09:15, been here about 45 mins. Lovely walk up with meadow browns everywhere, a few lazy small heath. Excellent orchids with half a dozen (greater or lesser??) butterfly orchids. Sun now warming up - hope for first large blue during next hour. More later

[Rogerdodge]

Collard Hill
13:30
saw first LB at 10:45. Very overcast then, but now very bright, warm and breezy. As I write this I am sat 4ft from a pair in copulo.
Will post photo when I get home.
Great day. Off for a bit of lunch now.

[Rogerdodge]

Thanks to all who voted for me to go to Collard.
I had a great day, met some excellent people, and got a few good photographs.
To that one poor soul who felt that my day would be best spent hoovering around the house - my wife doesn't need that sort of encouragement! Please don't do it again!

[Paul]

glad you had a good day, great Large Blue pair... I thought about you as I gazed out of the window at work this am....
I'm sort of planning Great Orm followed by Lake District this weekend, weather dependant

[Gruditch]

To that one poor soul who felt that my day would be best spent hoovering around the house - my wife doesn't need that sort of encouragement! Please don't do it again!

That was me

Gruditch

[Rogerdodge]

Why am I not surprised?