When I planned my visit to the Great Bustard Project, I decided that I would probably have time to visit a local reserve to look for butterflies, particularly the Adonis blue, which I hadn't seen so far this year. Looking in my Wiltshire Book of Butterfly walks I found a possible site at Boscombe Down West, about 15 minutes away.
This site consists of a disused railway line now managed as a nature reserve. Either side are chalk embankments and being sheltered provides an ideal butterfly habitat.
I parked at the entrance which is adjacent to an airfield and walked down the level path. I saw serveral small whites, a few Brimstones, and a couple of orange tips. In an area of kidney vetch I found some of the blue butterflies; a small blue, brown argus, and some common and Adonis blues. There were also dingy skippers here and I found rather worn green hairstreak too. Due to time restraints, I didn't walk the whole kilometre length of the track but returned to the car ready to make the journey home.
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