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Date Species Number Life Stage Site Town Grid Ref. V. County Recorder Comment Image
19 Sep 2015 Common Blue 1 Adult Tarn Sike Orton NY665076 VC69 Westmorland Sarah Mitchell Female. Very worn.
19 Sep 2015 Small Tortoiseshell 6 Adult Tarn Sike Orton NY665076 VC69 Westmorland Sarah Mitchell Nectaring on Devil's-bit Scabious 4031.jpeg
19 Sep 2015 Small Heath 3 Adult Tarn Sike Orton NY665076 VC69 Westmorland Sarah Mitchell
19 Sep 2015 Red Admiral 2 Adult Tarn Sike Orton NY665076 VC69 Westmorland Sarah Mitchell 4029.jpeg
19 Sep 2015 Peacock 6 Adult Tarn Sike Orton NY665076 VC69 Westmorland Sarah Mitchell Nectaring on Devil's-bit Scabious 4030.jpeg
19 Sep 2015 Small Tortoiseshell 1 Adult Arnside Station Arnside SD457789 VC69 Westmorland Roger Fellows
19 Sep 2015 Red Admiral 4 Adult Garden 3 Flakebridge Cottages Appleby in Westmorland NY684204 VC69 Westmorland Michael Houston Photographed in the garden on same plant as a Comma. Calm, sunny (...) 4073.jpeg
19 Sep 2015 Comma 1 Adult Garden 3 Flakebridge Cottages Appleby in Westmorland NY684204 VC69 Westmorland Michael Houston Photographed in the garden. Calm, sunny and warm. 4072.jpeg
19 Sep 2015 Speckled Wood 8 Adult Allithwaite Quarry Allithwaite SD390767 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick coolish, intermittent sun and SW breeze
19 Sep 2015 Small Tortoiseshell 3 Adult Allithwaite Quarry Allithwaite SD390767 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick coolish, intermittent sun and SW breeze
19 Sep 2015 Red Admiral 3 Adult Allithwaite Quarry Allithwaite SD390767 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick coolish, intermittent sun and SW breeze
19 Sep 2015 Green-veined White 1 Adult Allithwaite Quarry Allithwaite SD390767 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick coolish, intermittent sun and SW breeze
19 Sep 2015 Common Blue 1 Adult Allithwaite Quarry Allithwaite SD390767 VC69 Westmorland Margaret and David Eastlick coolish, intermittent sun and SW breeze female, woebegone
19 Sep 2015 Painted Lady Adult Hall Dunnerdale garden Hall Dunnerdale SD207950 VC70 Cumberland James Brockbank several
19 Sep 2015 Small Copper 1 Adult Wetheral garden Wetheral NY466544 VC70 Cumberland Cilla Stanger-Moore Feeding on verbena bonariensis. Watched it for several minutes (...)
19 Sep 2015 Small Tortoiseshell 17 Adult Beetham Milnthorpe SD498794 VC69 Westmorland Arthur On sedum near the Heron theatre

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