Common blue, Polyommatus Icarus A hot day and the temperature set to rise in the coming week. Butterflies galore on Scout Scar. Flowering grasses astir with micro-moths, small heaths and meadow browns. A flicker of blue tells of Polyommatus Icarus, common blue whose underwing is spectacular.
Fritillaries everywhere on the wing, nectaring on bramble flowers and in pools of sunlight deep in shady bracken. So many, we lost count, our eyes holding some half a dozen fritillaries in wavering flight, a lull, then more.
We found a couple of wheatear, probably juveniles, on the limestone clitter. The flickering tail and flash of white rump as they flew off. Grasshoppers loud in the grass.
By lunchtime it was so hot we found shade under a leafy ash tree and were refreshed.
Fritillaries everywhere on the wing, nectaring on bramble flowers and in pools of sunlight deep in shady bracken. So many, we lost count, our eyes holding some half a dozen fritillaries in wavering flight, a lull, then more.
We found a couple of wheatear, probably juveniles, on the limestone clitter. The flickering tail and flash of white rump as they flew off. Grasshoppers loud in the grass.
By lunchtime it was so hot we found shade under a leafy ash tree and were refreshed.
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