We set off along another upland track similar to the one on Day 3 but it only lasted for half an hour or so. We had seen a sombre tit and a lesser spotted woodpecker and I got a photo of a brown argus before the heavens opened.
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| A strange butterfly |
It looked like it would be in for the day and so we headed for the nearest town to do a little sightseeing instead. We did see one butterfly there, though not of the kind we had been looking out for. One of the group needed some dental treatment so we had lunch in town too, which all took a while.
Out of nowhere it then brightened up and so we headed off again, scouring some roadside meadows. The butterfly sightings started to come slowly but surely and when we entered a small meadow near a river, there was half an hour when they were turning up in almost the same quantities we had experienced during the middle of the week.
We moved on to another couple of meadows towards the end of the day, but things were already quietening down somewhat.
Most were things we had already seen but there were some additions, notably idas blue, sloe hairstreak and eastern baton blue. I think though the joy at seeing a good number of butterflies on the wing again that was more important than hunting down new species.
Another cracker in this video as it appears that faded brown argus is a female idas blue. The dragonfly is a female keeled skimmer.
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