Delighted to report that battling males were seen at the Hill Farm territory on Bookham Commons, Surrey, today and in the Buckhurst Hill part of Epping Forest. The Home Secretary has been informed and is speeding back to Whitehall from the Straits of Dover, where she'd been dealing with a Painted Lady invasion.
Also, at last Knepp kicked off, with a male on territory at Green Lane Pond [for those who know the site] and another seen near Hammer Pond. Here's the Green Lane male.
He'd arrived early at the party, found that the others were still down the pub, and had made himself a coffee and was reading a smutty book on the stairs...
Note that I am not expecting a sizeable emergence at Knepp this year, where many sallows wilted in a severe drought last early August. It may be a year of Quality rather than Quantity...
Also, just heard that one was seen in Havering Country Park, Essex, today, and a male was photographed in Oversley Wood, Warwicks. But none seen in Bernwood Forest.
Tomorrow's looking good, in the more south-eastern parts of the Empire, so to the woods, the lot of you, and Enjoy...
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