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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 3433801" data-attributes="member: 12449">Species number 100, Large Grizzled Skipper, 24 July 2016Way back in the spring, the thought of getting 100 species in the Baltic States in the single year was a mere fanciful idea, I didn't actually expect to achieve it. But here I was, on the 24th July, sitting on species number 99, searching for number 100. A pretty good day weather wise, albeit again with high cloud. Pretty good for butterflies too, with almost 40 species seen, Pallas's Fritillary, Eastern Bath White and Silver-spotted Skipper amongst them. I however was conducting a dedicated search for Large Grizzled Skippers . In several hours of searching, I didn't find it along a track that I have seen them in past years, so tried instead an area of poor soils where pines are naturally reclaiming a hillside. And there, after a half hour's walk, bingo! One Large Grizzled Skipper resting on leaves and flower tops, species number 100!So a little bit of back slapping, I achieved my target!What next? Onward and upward ...my target had been 100 species in the Baltic States, but at a country level, the end result could be broken down to 95 species in Lithuania and 52 species in Latvia. So a new natural target, try to reach 100 in Lithuania alone, and as high as possible for the combined Baltic list. Already I have a couple of potential species in my sights in Lithuania, neither of which I have ever seen in the Baltic States before. Let's see...</blockquote>

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