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A new site for me as regards Long-tailed Blue, on the corner of Mount Way and Mill Road on an area within the National Park levelled for development. Planning permission has been refused on several grounds, so hopefully it will remain as it is now, full of wild flowers! I only saw the butterfly very briefly, nectaring distantly on Valerian. Also today I saw a fresh male Holly Blue, a species I haven't seen locally for three weeks after a long and brilliant second brood. One starts to think of third brood as a possibility, even though in normal times it is an October phenomenon. These are not normal times!