Black Hairstreaks at Whitecross Green

14 June - a lunchtime visit to Whitecross Green Wood, sunny and warm, and 4-5 Black Hairstreaks seen, mostly flitting around high up, but a couple settled briefly. Green-veined White and Large Skipper also seen, but no Wood Whites.

Blakehill and Otmoor

4 June - a lunchtime walk at Blakehill produced half a dozen Large Skippers (upper), also a Small Copper (middle), a couple of Common Blues and a Small Tortoiseshell. Later, after an unsuccessful look for Club-tails on the Thames at Whittenham, I went to Otmoor and managed to photograph a female Hairy Dragonfly (lower).