I took an hour's walk along part of the Ridgeway trail at Hackpen this afternoon and it proved a good spot for butterflies as I recorded 12 different species. My target was to see a Dark Green Fritillary but the area I had intended looking required a walk through a field of cattle, including some young ones, so I decided against that, but continued along the Ridgeway path.
There were plenty of butterflies about, despite cloudy conditions at times, although it was warm at 20 degrees. I saw lots of meadow browns and ringlets, a few large and small skippers, common blues, small heath, large and small white, small tortoiseshell and a red admiral . There were also good numbers of marbled whites, and just as I had thought I'd had a wasted trip, a dark green fritillary turned up, nectaring at the side of the track for a while before flying off over the fields.
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