The Lincolnshire Bird Club

I saw six brown hairstreaks today at five ways Chambers wood also at five ways a very worn silver washed fritillary which also has been seen in the garden a few times.

Colin.

To follow up Colin's report of 15 August :

My son, Alex, and I went to Chambers Farm Wood this afternoon (Monday), 3.15 - 5.30pm in search of the Brown Hairstreak.
Fiveways was our base area and for the first hour or so we had plenty of 'distractors' in the Blackthorn, Oak and Ash with Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown and Gatekeeper, but no sightings of Brown Hairstreak and only one or two of Purple H.
We were joined at c 4.15 by Ian Lee, a butterflier/birder from Cleethorpes and 4.30 - 5.00 was prime time - with warm sunshine present on the target areas and no wind :

3 female Brown Hairstreak - seen at one and the same time, with a number of individual sightings
6+ Purple Hairstreak - with many individual sightings
plus incl.
5 Red Admiral
4 male Brimstone
Comma.

Regards,

Freddy

Nice couple of hours at Chambers this afternoon; the highlights being:

1 Silver Washed Fritillary
1 Hummingbird Hawk Moth
1 Brown Hairstreak
4 Purple Hairstreak
7 Brown Argus
2 Comma
2 Gatekeeper
1 Meadow Brown
1 Ringlet
8 Common Blue
Large numbers of Brimstone; Large, Green-veined and Small Whites; Peacock; Red Admiral; Small Tortoishelles

Ta
Matt, Neil & Geoff

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