Lankham Bottom - Sun 11 Jul

As it was still a rather pleasant day we decided to take another trip out, so after lunch we drove just across the border in to Dorset for a return visit to the Butterfly Conservation Reserve at Lankham Bottom. As was the case during our morning walk we saw very few birds, in fact little of note at all other than a couple of singing Skylarks and a few Yellowhammers.

Unfortunately, it had couded over a bit so there were very few butterflies on the wing as we walked around the reserve, but we did see a few Marbled Whites, the ever-present Meadow Browns, and a couple of Ringlets:

We also saw a couple more Gatekeepers:

And a few Small Skippers were flying about:

At least one Red Admiral passed us by and two Painted Ladies were near the main entrance to the reserve. As we completed our afternoon stroll we noticed several Cinnabar Moth caterpillars:

And a hand full of Peacock caterpillars feeding on stinging nettles: