Peter Jones, "Hampshire Diary"

Sunday, July 16, 2006 - Silver Washed Fritillary

Had a quick look round Wendover woods after work on Friday, and en route to a Bucks Bat group meeting. Hoped to see Silver Washed Fritillary at the famous Buddleia bush, but time was against me.

Parked in the right place and walked in the right direction, but couldn't find a buddleia, also a lack of butterflies, but it was 7:30pm!

However, just as I had given up, my luck changed and at 8pm! on a sunny woodland edge saw about 4 Silver Washed Fritillaries. Had excellent views, what a superb Butterfly!

Never did find the Buddleia!

 

Bat watch was pretty tame with only a few Common Pipistrelles found by my little group. Did however, see Glow Worms which was a first.

 

Following evening, set the bat detector up in the back garden and left it for a couple of hours recording to an MP3 player. When analysing the sound file, I was pleasantly surprised to have captured a Noctule flying over in addition to a few Common Pipistrelles. Must do this remote recording more.. 2 hours of recordings can be analysed in about 10 minutes!

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - That bush

Posted by Anonymous
Haven\'t been to look, but told it wasn\'t flowering 2 weeks back... its on the right coming from the hale end, just opposite where track goes off left which has lime trees along it; alternatively on the right of track at end of first open \'compartment\'. You probably knew that... !
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<br> Ed Griffiths
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