Thursday 3 July 2014

Butterflies and friends at Aldbury

Before work this week headed now to Aldbury Nowers a great sight at this time for year with the flowers out and the butterflies going about their business when i got there the Marbled Whites were in full flow throughout the meadows with a few hundred easily with good numbers of Small Tortoiseshell, Meadow Brown, Skippers and Ringlets feeding in the first field and a few Large Whites and Red Admiral feeding as well.

Then moved on to the 2nd field where had the pleasure of seeing a few Dark Green Fritillary but too fast for me!!! At the edge of the field along the main footpath was lucky enough to find a sunny spot where a heavy pregnant lizard was sunning herself before moving myself down to main chalk pit where I had a few Common Blues and a lovely family of Blackcaps with a male feeding three young ones.

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Feeding Marbled White
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Ringlet in the sun
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Feeding Large Skipper
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Sunbathing Lizard
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Adult Blackcap getting food for youngster
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Calling young Blakcap

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