The
Suffolk Argus
Down the Stallode Wash to Botany Bay by RichardChampion
June 2000
\v'ha1 nnc.lli\'c names these arc' Not some romantic foreign shore in this instance but a little hit of Suffolk that is as far west and north a~ you c:an go without a passport. The good weather promised for July ."\Oth 1999 duly arri,·cd and I set off to do some huttcrfly recording in this area that I had nc\'cr prc\'iously \'isitcd. N11 '<Hl!Wr h.1d I p.irknl up at the mu1h rnd of the S1.1llodc \v'.1,h and begun sorting out my rucks.ick than the first hu11crfly nf the day - a pristine male wall landed beside me on the gravel track. As this was a "new" record for the millennium survey, I set off north along the track with high hopes for the remainder of the day. An hour later I reached the railway line at the south end of Botany Bay and had recorded 16 species including the three skippers, the three whites, all the common browns, plus Peacock, Comma, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstone and Common Blue. What surprised me the most was that in many places along the track, the Wall was the common butterfly - indeed I must have seen nearly 30 in the first hour. I carried on to the north end of Botany Bay where you come to the Little Ouse and the county of boundary, and turned east along the top of the dyke that separates the river from the new RSPB Lakenheath Fen reserve. Once again the Wall was the common butterfly on several sections of the dyke and a couple more "new" black dots were added to the rerrad map, bur the only additional species seen was a single Painted Lady. The day was turning our to be a real scorcher so I retraced my steps back to the car for some food and water. As I sat on the grassy bank enjoying my lunch and the glorious sunshine a Clouded Yellow flew past and landed a couple of yards away.
Butterfly
Conservation
Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31st March 2000
1998/9 779 00 164.50 19.85 130 00 13.89 1,107.24 83.87
Income
1999/00
Membership Subscriptions Granrs Dnnations: General Fundraising Butterfly Plants Sale of Merchandise
1,023.37
1998/9 50.00 12.50 455.17 116.50 108.75 31.39 58.78
713.00
204.81 210.07 1,127.88 49.60
Cost of Sales
1078.28
1999/00
Income Donation Retirement Suffolk Show Subscriptions Newsletters/Program Butterfly Action Plan
20.00 81.00 15.00 346.42
181.69
Member'sNight/ACM
95.25
FWAG Conference Repairs Office Expenses Conference Expenses
2.46 29.00
858.09
770.82 Surplus on current year
307.46
Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2000 Consolidated Fund Balance 1.4.2000 Add surplus on year
817.35 307.46 1,124.81
Assets as at 1.4.2000 Generator Software Projector Table Exhibition Tent Srock - Merchandise Liabilities
Net Worth
20
Suffolk Branch
150.00 29.99 100.00
Represented by: Girobank pie Cash in hand
1,122.46 2.35 1,124.81
Written down value@ 20% 61.44 No present value 15.35 64.00 140.79 190.90 (60.00)
1,396.50
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