A gorgeous morning at Barbury Castle for my walk this morning; a gentle breeze and a few clouds made the temperature rather more bearable at 10 a.m. although within an hour it had started to heat up once more.
After walking the 500m to the old earth works, I made for the gulleys where it is more sheltered and consequently it's where most of the butterflies are found. Good numbers of butterflies about at this hour, mostly meadow browns, gatekeepers and whites and well as a few small coppers, marbled whites, and common blues. At one time a fritillary flew past at speed, presumably a dark green fritillary, although could have been a silver washed fritillary. However my main purpose in visiting this site was to find some chalkhill blues and I managed to find a few of these, and they were reasonably obliging for photos too.
Butterflies seen included:
large white, small white, green veined white, marbled white, chalkhill blue, common blue, peacock, red admiral, fritillary (?) small copper, meadow brown, gatekeeper.
meadow brown
chalkhill blue
peacock
common blue
chalkhill blue
small copper
small white
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