Butterflies at Bevendean Down NR; a short morning walk. 11.08.22

On Thursday 11.08.22 I walked from my house to Bevendean Down from my house. I arrived at Bevendean at 8.00 am and I walked back at home at 9.15 am.

Bevendean Down is a cluster of species-rich chalk grassland, scrub and woodland sites which have earned Local Nature Reserve (LNR) status and is in the South Downs National Park.

The sloping hills are home to many species of butterfly including the nationally scarce Adonis Blue, the rare Silver Spotted Skipper and a large population of Round-headed Rampion (otherwise known as the Pride of Sussex). Bevendean Down (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

A Great Tit in the trees by the steps that lead from Warren Road to Bevendean

A Herring Gull chick on the top of a factory in the Bevendean industrial estate

Bevendean Down Nature Reserve

Speckled Wood on bramble

Speckled Wood camouflaged

Gatekeeper

Juvenile (?) Greenfinch

Meadow Brown

Meadow Brown

Common Blue

Common Blue

Common Blue

Adonis Blue

Brown Argos

Female Common Blue

Speckled Wood

Common Blue

Female Common Blue

Speckled Wood

Small Heath