One butterfly, two butterfly

I've been helping Natural England complete their butterfly transect at Mottey Meadows NNR recently.  The survey is part of a series of ongoing monitoring programmes to assess the condition of the reserve and the impact of management work and climate change.

Sadly it was a bit breezy here and there so most of the butterflies seen were out of the wind on the other side of the hedge, and thus outside of the transect so couldn't be counted.  In the end I finished with large white, gatekeeper, small white, meadow brown, small tortoiseshell, red admiral, green-veined white and a skipper species which blasted past not to be identified.

'Peek-a-boo' with a red admiral