If you want to see butterflies you could do a lot worse than visiting the Blaenserchan Valley at the moment. This evenings stroll witnessed many thousands of common blue, probably the biggest hatch in living memory! Also on offer were a few tatty dingy skipper, a green veined white, small heath, common heath moth and a sliver y. On the coleoptera front several bloody nosed beetles were noted with purpose in their stride, making hast along the disused pit road.
Birdwise, a successful first brood of stonechat showed well, cuckoo, redstart, tree pipit, garden warbler, redpoll and linnet were also in fine voice.
Interesting about the numbers of common blue in Blaenserchan. We've had good numbers in Cwmynyscoy LNR but nothing that spectacular. I wonder if it's got something to do with the number of ant nests in the sheep grazed turf at Blaenserchan? L
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