Grizzled Skipper extravaganza

Over the last three days I have clocked up an incredible 67 Grizzled Skippers at six sites around Cotham and Kilvington - almost certainly more than I've seen in all my previous years looking for them put together... It seems to be an exceptional year for them. Yesterday and today I did most of my skippering with Carl, and we found them in several new locations. Almost as noteworthy, we found 2 Dingy Skippers at one site near Kilvington - a new record for this part of the county (they're generally associated with old colliery sites in the west).

Grizzled Skipper

Away from skippers, a look at Mons Pool this morning produced a single Turnstone, but not much else of real note.

Turnstone at Mons Pool