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20-Apr-2024
The 2023 Black Hairstreak Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/BlackHairstreak_Report_2023_SHodges.pdf
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25-Mar-2024
The 2023 Chalk Hill Blue Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/ChalkHillBlue_Report_2023_NBowles.pdf
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22-Mar-2024
The old events and calendar web pages have been replaced by a new page called event_calendar. This allows easy switching from a list of future events ('List View') to a monthly grid of events ('Month View'). Note that if you change to type of event to display, your selection will be propagated if you change the view.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/event_calendar
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21-Mar-2024
The 2023 Small Blue Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/SmallBlue_Report_2023_ASpragg.pdf
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18-Mar-2024
The Spring 2024 edition of Hairstreak is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Newsletters/newsletter121.pdf
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16-Mar-2024
The 2023 Purple Emperor Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/PurpleEmperor_Report_2023_MRobinson.pdf
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11-Mar-2024
A new version of the UTB Surveys document has been uploaded.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Downloads/UTB_surveys.pdf
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09-Mar-2024
The 2023 Grizzled Skipper Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/GrizzledSkipper_Report_2023_DHastings.pdf
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25-Feb-2024
The 2023 Silver-spotted Skipper Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/SilverSpottedSkipper_Report_2023_TDunbar.pdf
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18-Feb-2024
The 2023 Grayling Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/Grayling_Report_2023_DSussex.pdf
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18-Feb-2024
Very grateful thanks to all those volunteering at Holtspur during this winter season. Once again your work has meant that the reserve is in wonderful condition.
Today, 10 UTB and 9 'Rough Around the Hedges' volunteers continued the transformation of the central hedge and a large part of that task for the UTB members was in transporting material cut from the hedge, off the grass in Upper Field, to store along the lower boundary hedge/fence line. It was remarkably warm there today with my car reporting 17C when I drove out and with two sightings of Brimstone as well it certainly felt like the last task of this winter.
However, we left the 'Rough Around the Hedges' team to finish off and it maybe that we need a small group to go back and clear some late cut material to prevent it laying on and damaging the grass and wildflowers.
I hope everyone gets to visit in the summer when the flowers and insects will be amazing.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/holtspur_bottom
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16-Feb-2024
The 2023 White-letter Hairstreak Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/WhiteLetterHairstreak_Report_2023_PCuss.pdf
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06-Feb-2024
John Thacker has produced an update to the iRecord getting started guide.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Downloads/iRecord_guide.pdf
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06-Feb-2024
The next UK Butterfly Recorders Meeting will be held via Zoom on Saturday 23rd March 2024. The programme for this event is being finalised and will include the usual updates on Butterfly Conservation's recording and monitoring schemes, including the announcement of the 2023 UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme results. The meeting is open to everyone with an interest in butterflies and butterfly recording and monitoring. Bookings are open via the link.
butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/uk-butterfly-recorders-meeting
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03-Feb-2024
The home page has been updated as follows:
1. The old social media icons have been replaced with new, smaller ones, and relocated to the top right of the page.
2. The menu bar has been changed. Items that were under the 'Sightings' tab are now under 'Butterflies', and 'Sightings' has been removed. A new tab 'Recording' has been added, incorporating some items from 'Conservation'.
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03-Feb-2024
The 2022 Annual Report of the UKBMS has been published. The Upper Thames branch of BC had the fifth highest number of transects (94, with 10 added since 2021).
ukbms.org/sites/default/files/downloads/UKBMS%20Annual%20Report%202022.pdf
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29-Jan-2024
Eight UTB volunteers helped the hedge laying team with the hedge separating Upper and Lower Fields, stashing cuttings to form a dead hedge at the base of those fields. Mark brushcut a further section of longer vegetation by the footpath. We saw our first butterfly of the year when a Peacock flew past in the surprisingly warm sunshine.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/holtspur_bottom
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10-Jan-2024
The 2023 Wood White Species Champion Report is available to view or download.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Reports/WoodWhite_Report_2023_NBoard.pdf
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08-Jan-2024
19 volunteers, ours and Paul Heath's 'Rough around the Hedges' hedge-laying experts, were at Holtspur Bottom on Sunday 7th Jan. We removed the temporary fencing that kept the sheep from sensitive turf on the scrapes and stored it for next year, cleared the upper footpath of encroaching brambles and replaced all the out-of-date notices. Paul's team did a beautiful job of laying the hedge at the top of the Triangle Bank. You can see part of that lovely job in the image attached (compare with final image).
Thanks to Chiltern Rangers who lent us road pins to hold up the temporary fencing and to Colin, who volunteers with them, and took them back to the Chiltern Rangers depot.
It was a glorious sunny day. The reserve is looking absolutely great. Join us and see for yourself at the next task on Sunday 28th Jan. Details of this next visit and all conservation work in Events.
www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/holtspur_bottom
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