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Thursday, 1 September 2016

White-point & first Vestal

Got a better looking presumed White-Point. Also my first Vestal for several years.

I always wondered how such a fluttery thing managed to migrate more than a few hundred yards especially after it spent 5 mins or so circling and crashing into the damp grass as I tried to pot it. Then it went fluttering up vertically until it disappeared from sight.




Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford.
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2 comments:

  1. Martin Albertini1 September 2016 at 11:01

    Don't forget that at this time of year Vestals could be home bred rather than actual migrants. The parents would have been the actual migrants.

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    1. Dave Wilton1 September 2016 at 14:36

      Maybe so if there'd been some Vestal migration in spring, Martin, but, if I remember correctly, this year they didn't really start being seen in numbers around the coast until late-July. I suspect virtually all of the current sightings will be primary immigrants.

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