A Feast of Butterflies in the Horsefield.

It was a warm sunny afternoon if a touch breezy as I squeezed threough the gap in the fence to access my local edgeland: the Horsefield.  Really called Gooseman's Field but familiarly known as the Horsefield because of the Traveller horses that are tethered here.  The temperature was 19.5C with a fresh NE wind.  Having been disappointed on my last foray here looking for butterflies, I was amazed at the high numbers on the wing.  The grasses in the field are now in their prime and were waving in the breeze in waves.  Purple contrasting with creams and whites and then the purples, yellows and pinks of the various flowers.  From the Horsefield I followed the path round the allotments into the cemetery and thence into the woodland cemetery where a made a circuit of the perimeter.  Butterflies seen included:

• Painted lady
• Ringlet
• Small tortoiseshell
• Meadow brown
• Large White
• Small and large skipper
• Common blue - 1 only
• Comma

Comma

Large Skipper

Large Skipper

Meadow Brown

Ringlet

Ringlet

Small Skipper

Small Skipper

Small Skipper

Small Skipper