The Cliffe Butterfly Transect
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The Cliffe Butterfly Transect
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Posts, photos and stats for the butterfly transect on the Cliffe in North Shropshire.

The Cliffe is a lowland heath on a sandstone ridge running North to South between the village of Ruyton XI Towns and the Nesscliffe Country Park

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Here are four more charts each showing an individual species and the number recorded per section for each of the years of our survey on the transect.

All are members of the Nymphalidae family and all show that they did not suffer on our site in 2024.

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December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
One of the butterfly species that bucked the trend on our transect in 2024 was the Orange Tip.

This data and chart show an upward trend. Would anyone care to speculate why this species did well? Did this happen for you as well?

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December 10, 2024 at 12:06 AM
My spreadsheet of all the transect data can give me this data as well, section by section comparisons. This is helpful in targeting conservation work for individual species
November 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I record our survey results in a spreadsheet so that I can see statistics throughout the year.

Here is an extract from one of the summary tables.
November 23, 2024 at 3:15 PM
One evening towards the end of July this year this Essex Skipper was found on the Cliffe. If the team can find them next year during the UKBMS transect survey then it will be the first time it will have been recorded during the four years of records.

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November 22, 2024 at 1:43 PM
A good fall of snow over the last two days in North Shropshire but a beautiful afternoon so this was an opportunity to take some photos and show you what our site looks like
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM