Hag Lane - 20th May

Nice warm sunshine this afternoon so target butterfly was Wall Brown. Not disappointed, and managed to find four along the extent of Hag Lane which starts at the top of Lee Lane, back of the ski-slope overlooking Shibden Valley, and tracks around to Bradford Old Road overlooking Boothtown. Stone walls, dusty tracks and flowery grasslands, some on the edge of woodland gives a nice mixed habitat.

Small Tortoiseshell x 12+

Wall Brown x 4

Holly Blue x 2

Peacock x 1

Orange-tip x 6

Speckled Wood x 1

Best I could do with the Wall Browns this afternoon, very flighty and camera shy !

Lee Mount

A very boldly marked Green-veined White on Erysimum this morning and a Holly Blue flypast.