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Matt Carter's 2.6 Challenge

SUCCESS!

Matt Carter’s ’2.6 charity challenge’ has finally come home to roost! His 2020 butterfly challenge is over.

His ambition this summer was to find and photograph twenty-six butterfly species close to where he lives in Oxfordshire, but he quickly smashed it, having to re-set his sights on a much more challenging goal to see and photograph all the different species living in Oxfordshire, totalling forty-two. But in the end he even smashed that, by seeing a total of forty-four! Read on.

Matt tells us “Oxfordshire is probably the best county to see butterflies, we have such a wide variety of habitats, including woodland, chalk downs, flower meadows, and lots of nature reserves, which are homes to an impressive forty-two species of the UK’s fifty-nine. I’m very pleased to have seen and photographed all forty-two, plus managed to see two other species on walks just outside of the county.”

His challenge finished in a fluttering flurry of sightings, with the stunning Chalkhill Blue (41), an amazing encounter with the rare and beautiful Brown Hairstreak (42), a penultimate and very well camouflaged Grayling (43) and last but not least, one of his firm favourites, the Silver Spotted Skipper (44).

Matt adds “A HUGE AND HEARTFLET THANK YOU, to all my sponsors. Over the next week or two I will use these photographs to prepare a quick-guide to butterflies in a PDF format that can be used on your smart phone, laptop or simply printed, so hopefully next year you can get out there and enjoy finding all these wonderful butterflies – watch this page for the link”

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Placeholder Picture Orange Tip
Placeholder Picture Holly Blue
Placeholder Picture Large White
Placeholder Picture Peacock
Placeholder Picture Brimstone
Placeholder Picture Comma
Placeholder Picture Green Vein White
Placeholder Picture Small White
Placeholder Picture Small Tortoiseshell
Placeholder Picture Common Blue
Placeholder Picture Dingy Skipper
Placeholder Picture Green Hairstreak
Placeholder Picture Red Admiral
Placeholder Picture Small Heath
Placeholder Picture Speckled Wood
Placeholder Picture Adonis Blue
Placeholder Picture Brown Argus
Placeholder Picture Small Blue
Placeholder Picture The Duke
Placeholder Picture Grizzled Skipper
Placeholder Picture Clouded Yellow
Placeholder Picture Small Copper Male
Placeholder Picture Meadow Brown
Placeholder Picture Large Skipper
Placeholder Picture Marsh Fritillary
Placeholder Picture Wood White
Placeholder Picture Silver Wash Fritillary
Placeholder Picture Marble White
Placeholder Picture White Admiral
Placeholder Picture Black Hairstreak
Placeholder Picture Ringlet
Placeholder Picture Dark Green Fritillary
Placeholder Picture Small Skipper
Placeholder Picture Gatekeeper
Placeholder Picture Painted Lady
Placeholder Picture Wall Butterfly
Placeholder Picture Purple Hairstreak
Placeholder Picture Purple Emperor
Placeholder Picture Essex Skipper
Placeholder Picture White Letter Hairstreak
Placeholder Picture Chalkhill Blue
Placeholder Picture Brown Hairstreak
Placeholder Picture Grayling
Placeholder Picture Silver Spotted Skipper