Two meadow brown butterflies were feeding on flowers in the same thistle patch in Barley Field. They seemed to be studiously ignoring one another.
One of the butterflies (above) had wings in immaculate condition; perhaps it was only recently hatched. The other’s wings were ragged.
Meadow browns look very similar to hedge browns
(yesterday’s post). A distinguished feature is that meadow browns have a single white spot in the “eye” on the forewing: hedge browns have two.