Some amazing numbers of butterflies this last week or so being reported from all over Calderdale.
I spent a fair amount of time in the garden today. Rewarded with 12 species including a Purple Hairstreak. It came to the lawn a couple of times when there was still some dew on the grass but it was always moving around and I failed to get a photo.
I was a little more fortunate with the camera this afternoon. I checked an area in Shroggs Park where there are a couple of big elms, the larval food plant of the White-letter Hairstreak . One of the elms has a rough grass/weedy area nearby and I managed to find a very mobile individual on creeping thistle. Photo not brilliant but just enough for firm identification even if it is at an odd angle.
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