More skippers

After birding this morning, it was butterflying this afternoon. I concentrated on the Cotham Landfill area again, and found Grizzled Skipper at all of their 'known' sites in that area, albeit not in huge numbers.

GS

I also located two (in different locations) on the Sustrans route a little to the north of the main area of their distribution at the landfill, but most excitingly, located four about 1.5km to the north of these, immediately south of Bowbridge Lane - one on the cyclepath itself, and four in the grassy margin of the field immediately to the east (three of which were just to the south).

3 GS here - a new site!

These are, to my knowledge, now the most northerly 'natural' Grizzled Skippers in Notts (the other populations, e.g. at Annesley Pit Top, I'm pretty sure are introductions), and among the most northerly in England.