Skippers on Guard

OUR AIM IS TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE HABITAT IT PROVIDES FOR WILDLIFE ALONG THE RIVERSIDE

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Hills Farm Wildlife Conservation

Our Meet this month was on 24th June 2018 - another very warm and dry day. A Mallard family with  about eight ducklings was spotted on the river, heading downstream in the dappled shade and there were many butterflies in the long grass and on the river banks. The majority were Meadow Brown butterflies but there were several Large Skippers on the warm dry embankments and Ringlets ranging along the damper margins. Bright Comma butterflies were seen flying as well.

Here is a Large Skipper (Ochlodes venata) on bank side vegetation.

Always very alert, they will often chase other butterflies away from their patch.

In addition to our usual meet, some members of the group went out on a sortie on the evening of 7th June when they found a sewing machine amongst the usual litter.