June 29th 2010

A very warm blustery day but Draycote Water was still quiet with 20+ first year Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 5 Buzzards worth mentioning when Bob and I visited this morning.
Luckily the butterflies made up for it with Draycote’s first Marbled White and Small Skipper of the year with 36 and 6 respectively among 10 Large Skipper, 5 Small Tortoiseshell, 15 Meadow Brown, 150+ Ringlet and 4 Speckled Wood in the top field of the country park. Also present were 2 White-plumed Moth, many Udea lutealis, Straw Dot and plenty of Common Blue Damselfly plus hundreds of Crickets/Grasshoppers sp.

Richard