Wednesday 22 April 2009

Butterfly beginnings

I talked myself into studying Butterflys, and if possible Dragonflys, in the area this year. My knowledge is vague - both for identification and distribution - so it's going to be a learning curve but hopefully some useful data can be gathered for building on in future.

On Sunday 19th April the following were noted:

Peacock - Great Kelk (1), Little Kelk (1).
Small Tortoiseshell - Great Kelk (1), Little Kelk (2)
Green-veined White - Great Kelk (1), Station Road (7)

I'm fairly sure the whites were all Green-veined but most of them weren't seen well enough for me to be sure! I guess this is lesson one in recording butterflys :-)

So there you have it - the Kelk butterfly list is now... 3

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