Saw a profusion of butterflies on the last section of my walk yesterday. There is a particular footpath just outside the village of Charlton which is clearly a fantastic habitat- and I'm not quite sure why. True, it has a high hedgerow on both sides but so do other paths in the area. The fields on either side are prairie-like arable monocultures rather than the rolling grasslands of places like Knocking Hoe which are classic butterfly territory.

 Nonetheless butterflies abound. I would think I saw seven or eight different species in the few minutes it takes to walk this stretch. The Meadow Brown (as seen above and below) was the most prolific, there must have been hundreds. It was also the species most willing to oblige for a photograph by settling long enough to take a snap!