Marsh Fritillary on buttercup
One of numerous rare marsh fritillary butterflies currently flying at Strawberry Banks nature reserve in Gloucestershire. I visited on Friday morning and it was pleasing to see so many of them on the wing and many looking very fresh too. Whilst at the site I met the National Trust Butterfly expert Matthew Oates who was doing a transect at the reserve and counting the number of individual butterflies seen. In the two fields he recorded 634 individuals a record for this site!
Marsh Fritillary on buttercup
One of numerous rare marsh fritillary butterflies currently flying at Strawberry Banks nature reserve in Gloucestershire. I visited on Friday morning and it was pleasing to see so many of them on the wing and many looking very fresh too. Whilst at the site I met the National Trust Butterfly expert Matthew Oates who was doing a transect at the reserve and counting the number of individual butterflies seen. In the two fields he recorded 634 individuals a record for this site!