Another beautiful day for butterflies – I popped up to the Hanglands with David Cowcill this morning – with the breeze and the more overcast conditions there were fewer butterflies around in general, but still plenty to look at, including a fabulous silver washed fritillary of the valezina form – a noticeably olive green wash across the wings. Also plenty of ringlet, speckled wood and meadow brown and one or two brimstone and comma – no sign of white admiral or purple emperor today.
The young kite was calling vocally from Royce Wood again today!
In the late afternoon, over to Etton Maxey Pits, where there were two tern chicks – one, fledged, was sitting on the mud banks behind the rafts, along with eleven adult common terns and several black headed gulls. The other was still on the raft itself. Also one common sandpiper, a green sandpiper and 3 redshank, plus one immature little ringed plover. A red kite patrolled over head!
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