Small Copper

Butterfly numbers seem to be really low this year. Looking back over the last eight years of my sighting records I've usually seen at least 25 species by the end of the first week in June. This year its only 18. I'm sure this is partly to do with being in a different location but the numbers of each species also seem quite low. I haven't, for example, seen more than a dozen Small Coppers.

Horrible road journey back to Oxfordshire this morning which took twice as long as it should have due to the volume of traffic.