Nick Turner's Nature Blog: Beachy Head & Park Corner Heath

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Beachy Head & Park Corner Heath - 25th May

Spent the morning looking for butterflies at Whitbread Hollow, Beachy Head. Found several Grizzled Skippers, including one laying eggs, as well as some pristine Dingy Skippers. Common Blues also much more prevalent and observed mating. Brown Argus also seen.

Grizzled Skipper

Dingy Skipper

female Brown Argus

Dingy Skipper

mating Common Blues

Common Blue

roosting Dingy Skipper

In the afternoon I paid my first visit to the Sussex Butterfly Conservation Reserve at Park Corner Heath near Rowland Wood. Having found the correct spot I was fortunate enough to meet a couple of local enthusiasts who knew where best to look for Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillaries. Soon we found a few and as the afternoon wore on they started to roost enabling us all to get some really nice photographs.

male Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillary

Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillary