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| female Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
On Sunday and Monday I visited a small triangular meadow
recently reclaimed from a patch of nettles which surrounds it on two sides. The
stalks of some of the 14
Bee Orchids I spotted five weeks ago are still visible. I saw the following 14 butterflies in the
meadow: Brimstone, Chalkhill Blue, Comma, Common Blue (second brood), Gatekeeper, Green-veined
White, Large Skipper, Large White, Meadow Brown, Peacock, Red Admiral, Ringlet,
Small Copper, Small White. In addition I spotted Silver Y moths and three micro-moths, two
of which I cannot identify. Also a fledgling bird which may be a Warbler. On Sunday I visited Arundel WWT and saw a Bewick’s
Swan cygnet.
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| Bewick's Swan & cygnet, Cygnus columbianus |
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| micro-moth, Agriphila straminella |
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| Chalkhill Blue, Lysandra coridon |
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| Chalkhill Blue, Lysandra coridon |
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| Cinnabar larva, Tyria jacobaeae |
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| Cinnabar larvae, Tyria jacobaeae |
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| Comma, Polygonia c-album |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus with Red Mites, Trombidium bree |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus with Red Mites, Trombidium bree |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| female Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus |
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| Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus |
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| Green-veined White, Pieris napi |
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| Green-veined White, Pieris napi |
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| Green-veined White, Pieris napi |
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| Green-veined White, Pieris napi |
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| the meadow |
This youngster sat on the stalk for some minutes and tweeted gently. It did not seem to mind me being five metres away.
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| juvenile Whitethroat, Sylvia communis |
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| Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus |
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| Large White, Pieris brassicae |
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| Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina |
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| Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria |
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| Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria |
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| Rush Veneer, Nomophila noctuella |
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| micro-moth - id needed please! |
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| Peacock, Inachis io |
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| Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta |
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| Red-shanked Carder Bee, Bombus ruderarius |
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| Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus |
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| Ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus |
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| Silver Y, Autographa gamma |
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| Silver Y, Autographa gamma |
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| Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas |
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| Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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| Small White, Pieris rapae |
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| White-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lucorum |
