Sunday, July 17, 2022

July 17th - Oates Dips Out

After 31 days of full-on Emperoring I drove home early this morning, along an A272 for once depleted of slow-moving polo pony lorries and crawling convoys of portaloos - and crashed out listening to the cricket.

From what I can gather, not many people went out Emperoring today. Those that ventured out found the butterfly heat suppressed and only active very locally.

Congrats to the Leics & Rutland PE gang who are finding the butterfly all over the two counties. Carry on, please...

Good to receive a record of a male in the Cotswolds near Broadway in the Cotswolds today.

Hope these SSE winds bring in lots of migrants...

 

1 comment:

Matthew Oates said...

I was wrong, Neil Hulme was out at Knepp most of the afternoon and witnessed an impressive flight of Emperors and Empresses. The wind was only light there and PE was very active indeed.