Having looked back through my archive I noted that I had already seen white helleborine in the cemetery by this time so I set out to check. I went the long way round taking in the churchyard as part of my survey and then out onto the fields returning by the cemetery. Although sunny and 16C there was still that nagging NE wind. I saw one holly blue in the churchyard and one unidentifiable white sp in the distance at the back of the cemetery but other than that no butterflies. The weather forecast is good for Saturday, with temperatures up to 20C, so I plan to visit the cemetery and Gooseman's then, hoping for small heath and large skipper butterflies. I was very pleased, however, to find the white helleborines out in the cemetery. I counted 18 but I am sure that I will have missed some and that there will be more to come.
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