Cumbria Butterfly Sightings: Brown Hairstreak

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Date Species Number Life Stage Site Town Grid Ref. V. County Recorder Comment Image
12 Nov 2023 Brown Hairstreak 19 Egg Arnside Knott Arnside SD457774 VC69 Westmorland Ian Watts Counted 19 eggs in a very small area (barely 10 square yards) of (...) 45924.jpeg
15 Aug 2023 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD456775 VC69 Westmorland Robert Kitchen 44729.jpeg
15 Aug 2023 Brown Hairstreak 2 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD455775 VC69 Westmorland Robert Kitchen This is a female egg laying so 2 seen 44730.jpeg
9 Aug 2023 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD449773 VC69 Westmorland Nicholas Turner intermittent sun. 44454.jpeg
7 Aug 2023 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD453773 VC69 Westmorland Ian Ball Single worn specimen near the trig point on Hemp Agrimony
4 Aug 2023 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD449773 VC69 Westmorland Graham Robinson 44609.jpeg
29 Jul 2023 Brown Hairstreak 1 Egg Arnside Knott Arnside SD450773 VC69 Westmorland Chris Winnick 19oC 20% sun and breezy.....egg from previous year
31 Oct 2022 Brown Hairstreak 2 Egg Arnside Knott Arnside SD4560577463 VC69 Westmorland Rosa Menendez
28 Oct 2022 Brown Hairstreak 3 Egg Arnside Knott Arnside SD45547745 VC69 Westmorland Tom Dunbar I headed for Arnside Knott this pm prior to tomorrow's butterfly (...) 39965.jpeg
19 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD4565677457 VC69 Westmorland David Hughes Intermittent sun, breezy. Male basking and feeding on hemp (...) 38748.jpeg
19 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD452772 VC69 Westmorland Tony Marsh On Hemp Agrimony, just South of Trig Point. 38766.jpeg
17 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 2 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD456774 VC69 Westmorland Peter Anderson Near Trig Point
14 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 3 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD45647749 VC69 Westmorland Ian Watts Near 30c heat. 1 female seen around 11am. 2 males nectaring on (...) 38657.jpeg
14 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD456774 VC69 Westmorland Peter Crooks Seen well by another observer.
12 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD455774 VC69 Westmorland Paul Haughian On Hemp Agrimony. about 20m south of the Trig point. 38541.jpeg
10 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD453775 VC69 Westmorland Brian Hancock Male Photographed on Hempagrimony 38416.jpeg
8 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD45657738 VC69 Westmorland Peter Howard Nectaring in Hemp Agrimony
3 Aug 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD455775 VC69 Westmorland Neil Freeman On Hemp Agimony to the right of trig pont 38264.jpeg
29 Jul 2022 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD456775 VC69 Westmorland Kate Hughes 38038.jpeg
10 Aug 2021 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD456774 VC69 Westmorland Paul East Feeding on hemp agrimony. 33474.jpeg
15 Aug 2020 Brown Hairstreak 2 Adult Gait Barrows Arnside SD483777 VC60 West Lancashire Sarah Mitchell 1 female, 1 male. On Wych Elm to the right of path to reserve. (...) 28758.jpeg
13 Aug 2020 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Gait Barrows Carr Bank SD477772 VC60 West Lancashire Dinesh Patel Female low in mature blackthorn adjacent to path 28665.jpeg
31 Jul 2020 Brown Hairstreak 2 Adult Garden Broughton in Furness SD2090387471 VC69 Westmorland Richard Evans
24 Aug 2019 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott and Arnside Arnside SD454774 VC69 Westmorland Stephen Hollinrake Male come of low bramble flew out of site was well worn
24 Aug 2019 Brown Hairstreak 5 Adult Gait Barrows Arnside SD483777 VC60 West Lancashire Stuart Medland 2 flying amongst mature blackthorn along the Lower Pasture's (...)
20 Aug 2019 Brown Hairstreak 3 Adult Gait Barrows Silverdale SD477768 VC60 West Lancashire Alan Tremethick Hedge Of Bottom Meadow Two were same butterfly when I looked at (...) 23157.jpeg
17 Aug 2019 Brown Hairstreak 1 Adult Arnside Knott Arnside SD446771 VC69 Westmorland Mike Read Not aware it was in the area, so big surprise! In area near the (...)

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