Another lovely sunny day, and as the White-tailed Plover that had been at Slimbridge had flown to Kent we had no birds to chase so stayed local and took a drive up to Collard Hill for a walk before lunch. There was very little on the bird front, in fact we saw just a singe Common Swift and a couple of Common Buzzards.
However, on the butterfly front we did a little better. We were too late in the year for any Large Blues, but we expected that, but we were not too disappointed as we did add a new butterfly to our list, Gatekeeper:
As we did a circular walk along the hillside we also saw several Marbled Whites, a good number of Ringlets, a couple of Small Heaths and singles of Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, and Red Admiral. There were also lots of Meadow Browns still about:
Further round our walk we thought for a split second that we may have gotten lucky as we saw a blue butterly flit past us, but when we pinned it down it turned out to be a Common Blue:
We rounded off the trip with our tenth species of butterfly of the morning as Ellie found a rather splendid Brown Argus. After an enjoyable stroll we headed back home for a well deserved lunch and the British Grand Prix!
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