13-07-2025
Small Skipper (2)
Large Skipper (1)
Brimstone (1)
Large White (7)
Small White (4)
Small Copper (13)
Common Blue (26)
Red Admiral (2)
Peacock (1)
Speckled Wood (7)
Marbled White (11)
Gatekeeper (100)
Meadow Brown (100)
Ringlet (5)
Sutton Lane is clearly very suited to Small Coppers (still in relatively high numbers and across all three meadows by paths and on Brambles) and Common Blues (across all three but especially in furthest meadow where in one small corner I saw 7 congregating) As Marbled Whites are meadow butterflies presumably more affected by extremely desiccated conditions and reduced nectar sources so few compared with previous visits - I suppose they don’t take to brambles as alternative
Julie Dart