Veteran botanist David Bellamy has insisted that habitat needs to be created for butterflies to stop the declines in some of the Britain’s best-loved insects: here.
Thursday, 30 July.
In the dunes of Voorne island.
Many butterflies, including speckled wood. Painted lady. Small copper. Meadow brown.
At the beach: great cormorants flying. A dead lesser black-backed gull. In the dunes close to the beach, Centaurium flowering.
More butterflies: green-veined white (see also here). Red admiral. Map butterfly.
A kestrel hovering in the air.
In the Brede water lake, a great cormorant breeding colony. Lesser-black-backed gull. Grey heron. Magpie. Pied wagtail.
Voorne plants photos: here.
Butterflies in the Netherlands and Belgium: here.
First Ayrshire record for Speckled Wood butterfly: here.
Silver Studded Blue butterfly found on Devon reserve for first time in 20 years: here.
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