Trip reports

Barry Buddon Open Day

Female Purple Hairstreak, Barry Buddon (Keith Edwards)

Sunday, 9 August 2009

The annual Open Day at Barry Buddon Camp near Dundee. 67 bird species and 16 butterflies, including possibly the first county record of Purple Hairstreak.

Highlights


Butterflies:

Large White
Small White
Green-veined White
Purple Hairstreak
Small Copper
Small Blue
Common Blue
Peacock
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
Small Tortoiseshell
Dark Green Fritillary
Grayling
Meadow Brown
Ringlet
Small Heath

Birds:

Eider
Common Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Goosander
Little Grebe
Fulmar
Gannet
Sparrowhawk
Ringed Plover
Grey Plover
Sanderling
Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Green Sandpiper
Greenshank
Turnstone
Great Skua
Sandwich Tern
Stock Dove
Cuckoo
Green Woodpecker (heard)
Grey Wagtail
Stonechat
Wheatear
Whitethroat
Magpie
Redpoll