Cumbria Butterfly Sightings

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Date Species Number Life Stage Site Town Grid Ref. V. County Recorder Comment Image
30 Jun 2022 Speckled Wood 1 Adult Path nr Borrowdale Road Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
30 Jun 2022 Speckled Wood 3 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer.
30 Jun 2022 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Adult Aikbank Farm Waverton NY215459 VC70 Cumberland Peter Ritson
30 Jun 2022 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Adult Path near Castlehead Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
30 Jun 2022 Small Tortoiseshell 4 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer. 36988.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Small Skipper 12 Adult Scrape by River Lyvennet Kings Meaburn NY619201 VC69 Westmorland David Nattrass Sunny afternoon, wind dropped about 19 degrees 37029.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary 1 Adult Swindale Shap NY510126 VC69 Westmorland Brian Hancock
30 Jun 2022 Small Heath 4 Adult Whitbarrow White Scar Lindale SD461854 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick sunny periods, stoney under foot with short grass
30 Jun 2022 Small Heath 1 Adult Hampsfield Allotment Lindale SD398806 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny, stoney. From time to time the Small Heath "saw (...)
30 Jun 2022 Ringlet 17 Adult Aikbank Farm Waverton NY215459 VC70 Cumberland Peter Ritson
30 Jun 2022 Ringlet 7 Adult Whitbarrow White Scar Lindale SD459852 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick sunny periods
30 Jun 2022 Ringlet 2 Adult Path near Castlehead Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon All On path and in meadow
30 Jun 2022 Ringlet 1 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer.
30 Jun 2022 Ringlet 30 Adult Scrape by River Lyvennet Kings Meaburn NY619201 VC69 Westmorland David Nattrass Sunny afternoon, wind dropped about 19 degrees 37031.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Red Admiral 1 Adult Whitbarrow White Scar Lindale SD461854 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick sunny periods, stoney with short grass
30 Jun 2022 Red Admiral 1 Adult Path near Castlehead Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
30 Jun 2022 Red Admiral 1 Adult River Kent West bank Kendal SD515937 VC69 Westmorland John Mounsey Briefly settlled on Ox-eye Daisy. Sunny, still, 4.30pm.
30 Jun 2022 Red Admiral 4 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer. 36987.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Painted Lady 1 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer.
30 Jun 2022 Painted Lady 1 Adult Bardsea beach Bardsea SD297737 VC69 Westmorland David Jackson
30 Jun 2022 Painted Lady 1 Adult High Hampsfield Farm Lindale SD404804 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny
30 Jun 2022 Mountain Ringlet 50 Adult Kidsty Pike Haweswater Reservoir NY443128 VC69 Westmorland Nicola Evans Many adults flying up as disturbed by walking through vegetation (...)
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 9 Adult Aikbank Farm Waverton NY215459 VC70 Cumberland Peter Ritson
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 2 Adult Whitbarrow White Scar Lindale SD459852 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick sunny periods
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 13 Adult Path near Castlehead Keswick NY268226 VC70 Cumberland Lorna Swift and Tim Dixon
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 14 Adult Dalston garden Carlisle NY365498 VC70 Cumberland Ian Armstrong Overcast, slight breeze but warmer.
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 10 Adult Scrape by River Lyvennet Kings Meaburn NY619201 VC69 Westmorland David Nattrass Sunny afternoon, wind dropped about 19 degrees 37032.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 3 Adult High Hampsfield Farm Lindale SD402805 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 11 Adult High Hampsfield Lindale SD406801 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick sunny and warm
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 5 Adult Hampsfield Allotment Lindale SD399797 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny. Longer, ungrazed grassland
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 1 Adult Eggerslack Woods edge Grange over Sands SD406799 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny
30 Jun 2022 Meadow Brown 5 Adult Eggerslack Woods edge Grange over Sands SD405794 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny
30 Jun 2022 Large White 1 Adult Aikbank Farm Waverton NY215459 VC70 Cumberland Peter Ritson
30 Jun 2022 Large Skipper 5 Adult Aikbank Farm Waverton NY215459 VC70 Cumberland Peter Ritson
30 Jun 2022 Large Skipper 12 Adult Scrape by River Lyvennet Kings Meaburn NY619201 VC69 Westmorland David Nattrass Sunny afternoon, wind dropped about 19 degrees 37030.jpeg
30 Jun 2022 Grayling 4 Adult Whitbarrow White Scar Lindale SD461854 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick sunny periods, stoney under foot with short grass
30 Jun 2022 Common Blue 1 Adult Eggerslack Woods edge Grange over Sands SD405794 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny, male
30 Jun 2022 Brimstone 1 Adult Hampsfield Allotment Lindale SD398806 VC69 Westmorland David Eastlick warm and sunny, stoney. The female Brimstone was investigating (...)

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