Butterfly Walk Around Mabie Forest with Butterfly Conservation

The weather was kind to us and there was a much bigger turn out than usual at Mabie Forest car park.
Owen Figgis who does regular transect walks to record butterflies for Butterfly Conservation, took the lead to show us the route he takes and how he records what he sees.
We had been told in advance of the event that Pearl Bordered Fritillaries had been spotted and we were not disappointed. As we were ferried to our start point, the strong sunshine began to bring out many butterflies and moths. Before long we had all seen and photographed many examples.

Species we noted on the route:

Pearl Bordered Fritillary

Peacock

Small Heath

Greenveined White

Orange Tip

Latticed Heath

Some in the group made more note of the daytime flying moths

Speckled Yellow

Brown Silver-line

Common Carpet

and a few micro moths.

A Gorse Shield-bug and a lizard were spotted briefly!

Thanks to Alison for these details.

There will soon be more photos of this ramble on the Rambling Russells blog.

 

The following photos were taken by Jim Asher