Following a breakfast that covered just about any combination of possible breakfast dishes and the provision of lunch from the buffet, we set off for a walk through some woodland and upland pastures. The tracks through the woods were alive with butterflies, Meadow Brown, Common Glider, and Silverwashed Fritilleries zipping about along the open edges. A Duke of Burgundy settled for a short spell and some seeps had butterflies clustering on the ground, Dryad, Map, Great Banded Grayling, Grayling, Short-tailed Blue, Wood White. Further up the hillside the woodland gave way to pastures where a heard of Hungarian Grey Cattle were grazing and a colony of bee-eaters were flying overhead. We walker over to the pool where they had nested but all the young had fledged. We had Red-underwing Skipper and a possible Chalkhill blue. Among the flowers there was Proliferous Pink, Deptford Pink and spiked Restharrow. Sandor took pity on us and went ahead to fetch the van.
We drove to a Neolithic cave at Suma which was about 100 yds straight up a rocky path and then a short scramble into the cave where there were Lesser Horseshoe with a single Greater horseshoe. Coming back down we headed to a small cafe for lunch and an ice-cream.
Our next stop was to check a gate for access in the evening and then on to a small slate mine with another scramble over a stream and down a slope through a low arch, which held 2 Lesser Horseshoe bats. It also held a couple of cave dwelling Tissue moths. The temperature in these caves dropped amazingly.
Back to the hotel for another lovely swim, huge dinner and then out for some mist netting in a new location.
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