Given the heat, we didn't feel it was very sensible to spend the day butterflying on a hill, without any shade, so decided to visit two local patches, pretty much as we did last year.
Wildern LNR first, looking for damsels and dragons. Coltsfood Pond had much less water than last year, and besides the many azure damselflies, we only saw a few common darters and a few broad-bodied chasers.
Away from the pond, we saw 11 species of butterflies; nothing unexpected, but the few ringlets were the first of the year for us!
Leaving Wildern, we decided to quickly pop by Monks Brook, to see if the banded demoiselles were home (especially as we haven't seen the species this year yet).
Sure enough, they were home!
The usual tables below, combining the two sites as the only overlap was a few speckled woods at Monks Brook (one = 1; few = 2-4; several = 5-9; many = 10+):
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