Combe Hill - Thu 29 Jul

As the sun was shining we headed off to Combe Hill, a few miles south of Street. We parked up in the car park and walked west towards the Hood Monument through the trees and out in to the open grassland on the hill top.

Before long we had found what we were looking for as a couple of Chalkhill Blues were fluttering about:

There was also at least one Brown Argus and a few Marbled Whites. A couple of Meadow Browns were also on the wing and we saw a single Green-veined White and Ringlet. We then carried on for a while longer and out to a bigger meadow, where we saw a single Wall butterfly and a Gatekeeper. Several Small Heaths were also about:

There were also a few Common Blues and loads more Chalkhill Blues: