25-05-26 The annual trip to Pitlochry to see Pearl-bordered fritillaries nearly didn't happen this year. I have been going there since 2018 with mixed results. For several years I fell into the trap of travelling too early - overexcited by the prospect of a beautiful butterfly in a beautiful setting, I'd head up there as soon as they were on the wing, then find out the Linn of Tummel PBFs were a week or more behind the Glasdrum ones, despite a similar latitude. This happened on more than one occasion and I resolved it shouldn't happen again. Then last year we had a very warm and sunny Spring and everything emerged ahead of schedule. It was tricky to adjust my PBF calendar this year, but then a load of rubbish weather arrived, just after the initial PBF emergence, which had me postpone my inclinations to travel North. from the Pitlochry station to Linn of Tummel site (3.5miles)I was even considering not bothering this year. Someone else posted photos of rain damaged rather scruffy PBFs…
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