As well as seeing all the regularly breeding butterflies in Hampshire this year there were a couple of target species in local counties that I had never seen in the UK before, these were Black Hairstreak and Lulworth Skipper. On 17th June I headed to the wonderful flower rich Bernwood Meadow for the former species. I was surprised to see Purple Hairstreak and then White-letter Hairstreak and as these are generally later flying species I was worried that I was too late for Black Hairstreak, but, in the final 45 minutes of my visit I found a hedgerow where at least three were present, albeit that two were very worn and the third, a fresh looking male, stayed high in the Blackthorn. My eBird checklist for the visit is here:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S251587296
