I went back to Ravensroost woods today during a brief spell of sunshine at midday today. Surprisingly the car park was empty on my arrival. I saw two purple hairstreaks and two white admirals together with many ringlets and meadow browns and good numbers of silver washed fritillaries. The first hairstreak flew across the carpark as I arrived and settled in a bush on the opposite side. Unlike my last visit, no silver washed fritillaries were nectaring today, but I was able to take some photos of a white admiral which was on a bramble flower.
I also saw a four spotted chaser, brown hawker and lots of common blue damselflies.
I keep hoping that I might find a white letter hairstreak; none have been reported this year so far and I didn't see any there last year either, despite having seen one or two on a particular patch of vegetation for the previous three or four years.
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