Our annual butterflying trip to Magdalen Hill Down didn't start very hopeful: thick cloud cover and the occasional spots of rain. For quite a long time, we only had three species on our list: gatekeeper, meadow brown and small heath ...
But then the cloud cover lifted, the temperature rose, and the chalkies came out to play!
By the end of the day, we had seen 13 species, chalk hill blues being the most common. They really were everywhere! Few skippers, one of which was an Essex skipper, which was a new species for us (!!). And we also spotted a clouded yellow, the first of the year.
Here's the full list (one = 1; few = 2-4; several = 5-9; many = 10+):
And as a bonus picture, these six-spot burnets busy ensuring the next generation:
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