2025.06.29 Nosehill Farm

Eight of us turned out early on a hot Sunday morning to clear thick vegetation from a south-facing slope next to the quarry-face site at Nosehill Farm in East Glos.

We call this the ‘butterfly slope’ because it is a good spot for several species of butterfly, particularly the Common Blue and the Small Blue. Their caterpillars feed respectively on Birds-foot Trefoil and Kidney Vetch, small yellow flowers which grow in grassy areas rather than thick undergrowth. By clearing the slope of hawthorn and brambles we connected it up with the grassy area at the side of the lake where the caterpillar food plants and the butterflies are seen.

Other species of butterfly we saw were Marbled Whites, Ringlets, Skippers and a Brimstone. All in all a good few hours work