June 30th
I grabbed a quick visit in the afternoon after visiting a Peregrine site in the morning, weather in the afternoon was not ideal as it became rather cloudy, I had in mind to try and photograph some White Letter Hairstreaks.
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| Black Tailed Skimmer |
First visit for over a month and was surprised how everything has changed and become overgrown, the viewing area is still holding a good head of water all over, but could possibly come up trumps for returning waders in late summer as it dries out.
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| Lapwing, sadly no juveniles again |
To reinforce this there were 7 Green Sandpipers present, possibly more, I saw 2 groups of 3 and 4 at the same time, hopefully we will pick up a Wood Sandpiper in the Autumn.
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| Green Sandpipers all |
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| Even more of them |
Also present in the viewing area were 6 moulting Gadwall and 33 Lapwing. The Lapwing look to have suffered heavy predation again, I could not find one juvenile amongst the flock, it looks as if the Crows and Foxes have again curtailed any local breeding.
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| Silver Y |
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| Essex Skipper, note dark antennae |
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| Small Skipper |
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| Purple Hairstreak |
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| Ringlet |
On a brighter note, despite the gloomy weather Butterflies were present in good numbers walking the usual transect of Berwick Glades.
Species seen were-
White Letter Hairstreak – 1, Purple Hairstreak – 1 , Small Skippers – 28, Essex Skippers – 2, Ringlet 6, Meadow Browns – everywhere, Small Copper – 1, Peococks – 2, Small Tortoiseshell – 1, Small Whites everywhere, Silver Y – 1,
Dave, I like your photos! I used to be a butterfly monitor when I lived in the Chicago area. Its fun to see your photos, all your species are different than ours, although we had skippers, just not so beautiful.
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