Those in the know will be aware of the heathland recovery work that has been taking place at Langley Fields Dawley, this was kicked off late last summer by ‘Persimmon Homes’ – one of my Social Value Volunteer Groups and more recently had a lot of input in the ‘Get the Marches Buzzing’ Project run by the brilliant Buglife ICT (and part funded by TWC and Great Dawley Town Council) that saw large areas of under threat heath re-opened by up by contractor Tree Man Clive and other separate volunteer efforts.

The whole aim of the project was to get the ‘at risk’ habitats in better order – focussing on the low growing, high nectar, lowland heath species and to safeguard some of the significant species that depend on it, such as the Green Hairstreak Butterfly (a medium concern species that has been recorded there) and The Dingy Skipper (a high concern species in serious decline, that also has been recorded on a few occasions)

Please find attached the pictures I took in person with my iPhone this afternoon while working on the site with another of our Social Value Groups – Fujitsu, Telford. Not only did I manage to capture both the Dingy Skipper and the Green Hairstreak (all sightings I have now recorded on the National Database via iRecord) but the species seemed to be in a localised abundance, sighted in groups in areas you would expect them to be, and also areas that have had our recent  interventions – showing their range looks to be expanding as a direct result of the recovery work.