Plenty Butterflies.......

Hard to keep up with them last few days

Cold Edge (Moorlands Farm - SE043304 ) overgrown garden was buzzing yesterday (7th). Despite the rather breezy day the shelter in the garden certainly improved the numbers - especially the blackberry bushes with....Large Skipper x 1, Small Skipper x 7, Ringlet x 2, Gatekeeper x 2, Small Heath x 1, Small Copper x 1, 3 sp. of 'Whites, along with M Browns, Small Torts and a Red Ad.

At home we had 10 species on Sunday 6th including 2 Holly Blue flying together. Later in the afternoon 2 Wall Browns were on the hillside walls on Hag Lane near Bradford Old Road. 

A Small Copper today was a first at home for the year and we found another Small Copper in St George's Church graveyard this morning. 

This really dark Small Skipper had me fooled for a while at The Withens this afternoon thinking maybe 'Essex' - it did have orange underside to the antenna which took some seeing in a windy spot.

Small Skipper on ragwort