A cloudy - but, at last, calm - day, punctuated by a hour's worth of thundery rain around midday. It was supposed to clear up nicely from 2pm, but glimmered and glowered instead. Emperors were nicely active during the glimmers.
At Knepp, the Purple Emperor season is starting to age, as testified by this old boy, struggling to feed amongst the wet grasses, albeit after doubtless playing a prominent role in the Partygate scandal -
He'd been to visit the ecology students' compost loos -
But I was shown a photo of a near-pristine male, who'd probably emerged there yesterday, saw a couple of freshly emerged females, and the males are still avidly searching the sallow stands for females. All this indicates that the Knepp season is far from ending - they'll be good for a couple of weeks BUT DON'T VISIT KNEPP AFTER JULY 23rd, they'll be over - and they've stopped feeding from the track surfaces.
I'm heading back to Glos and Wilts for a few days.
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