Our annual leave butterfly trips are nearing the end. Kingley Vale today.
Lovely walk through mostly mature forest. Many meadow browns on the more open pastures, and many speckled woods in the more closed forest. The woodland looks like it would be good for species like white admiral and purple hairstreak, but that's for next year maybe.
Not butterfly-related, but the gnarly ancient yew trees are just fantastic ...
The more open parts also look like they will have a good selection of grassland butterflies (blues, etc), but very few plants were still flowering, so, again, that's for a future visit.
The customary list of the butterfly species we saw (one = 1; few = 2-4; several = 5-9; many = 10+).
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