Eight people braved the very cold weather on 10th June to look for Small Blue Butterflies. The food plant, kidney vetch, looked fantastic and now covers a very extensive area, but we had to look very hard to find the butterflies. Eventually one was netted, and having searched the vegetation under which they were sheltering we saw a total of six! We resorted to a walk round Kildary Loch in the afternoon, at least there was some birdlife!

Margaret Currie and Andy Scott