Another fairly quiet visit today. Decided to stick to the paths and hope I'd trip over a mammal or two. Best spots were actually butterflies with 3 Common Blues, 1 Marbled White, 1 Large and 1 Small White, a few tatty Ringlets, a Speckled Wood and lots of Gatekeepers. 1 Six-spotted Burnet and a few Meadow Browns made up the rest. Is it me our are Red Admirals having a bad year? I've personally not seen one yet this year!
Only other things to hit the notebook were 1 juvenile Grass Snake, 1 Grey Squirrel and numerous Rabbits.
Does seem like a good time to plug this - http://www.bigbutterflycount.org/
I've only seen one Red Admiral locally, and that was at Caldecote a couple of days ago. They do seem to be down on numbers this year.
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ReplyDeleteNo they are a bit thin on the ground. Not seen too many myself.
Thanks for your postings chaps. I'm going to try and complete a few of the butterfly survey's over the weekend. Hopefully find my first Red Admiral, fingers crossed. I'll update the blog of course. Regards Paul
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