There were amazing views across the Wiltshire countryside from the top of Martinsell Hillfort this afternoon. I was on my first 'butterfly foray' of the year and was keen to get a few species under my belt; reports seem to be suggesting that species are emerging early this year, due to the warm weather.
I was hoping for grizzled skipper and green hairstreak but sadly saw neither that I could definitely identify. A couple of small butterflies quickly took off from some hawthorn and disappeared before I could check them out, and a probable grizzled skipper was flying at speed low across some rough grass before it crossed in front of me and disappeared over the hedge.
However there were a variety of other butterfly species to be seen including orange tip, brimstone, wall brown, brown argus, common blue and various unidentified whites and good numbers of small heath.
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