Sighting

12-07-2018

Small Skipper (100)

Large Skipper (50)

Large White (10)

Small White (6)

Green-veined White (2)

Common Blue (4)

Speckled Wood (3)

Marbled White (20)

Gatekeeper (2)

Meadow Brown (30)

Ringlet (20)

Small Heath (7)

 Huge numbers of Skippers at this site. More small skippers than large skippers. Many marbled-whites feeding from the knapweed. This is an excellent site for wild flowers. The copious Viper's bugloss attracts humming-bird hawk moths and elephant hawk moths.

Sarah Ward

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