by hoegrangequarry | Oct 3, 2023 | September 2023
Hello Everyone, Thanks very much to the 350 or so volunteers who diligently went about carrying out their butterfly transects in 2023 at 130 sites across the County – yet another great achievement during a year of not exactly ideal conditions although we didn’t...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 25, 2023 | September 2023
With the arrival of the Autumn Equinox, the change of weather patterns has well and truly arrived with sunshine and heavy rain and showers – butterfly sightings were at a premium this week but nonetheless 15 species including some decent numbers were seen by a...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 19, 2023 | September 2023
After 6 days of intense heat last week, Week 24 of the transect season was back to normal weather wise with a drenching of rain and temperatures in the low 20’sC. This dramatic change in the weather has obviously had an effect on butterfly numbers although 23 species...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 14, 2023 | September 2023
Well we weren’t expecting a prolonged heat wave at the beginning of September 2023, were we? but it looks like a week of continuous sunshine with temperatures in the high 20’s Centigrade means that we are likely to have the hottest period of the year – there...
by hoegrangequarry | Sep 4, 2023 | September 2023
Hello Everyone, According to the Met Office, we have now entered Autumn and despite claims that it has been yet another warm Summer, in this part of the UK the weather figures suggest otherwise. Whilst we don’t want the extreme Summer temperatures which Southern...
