Today, at last, the Moderate to Fresh SW winds that have plagued the last week abated. I thought Emperors would take to the air big time, to make up for lost flying time. They didn't, at least at Knepp, where they had a very quiet day indeed. I'm not sure why.
I took a group of Operation Wallacea ecology students around Knepp today, charged with finding the worst behaved Purple Emperor as a replacement to the suspended Tory Deputy Chief Whip. We chose this male, feeding on cherry-flavoured fox scat (note the stones) -
He attracted quite a crowd of admirers -
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