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other wildlife as well and uncut hedges mean more berries The Countryside Code for overwintering birds. Further information about the • Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs Brown Hairstreak can be found on the regional Butterfly • Leave gates and property as you find them Conservation website • Protect plants and animals. Take your litter home • Keep dogs under close control & clean up after them www.westmidlands-butterflies.org.uk • Consider other people Further information about Grafton Wood can be found on www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk Hairstreak Trail The Brown Hairstreak butterfly is declining nationally Fact File The Hairstreak Trail will guide you around the beautiful but is thriving in east Worcestershire where it breeds on Start Three Parishes Hall, Grafton Flyford or countryside of east Worcestershire, which is home to the village rare Brown Hairstreak butterfly. The trail links to the long blackthorn hedgerows. The adult butterfly is on the wing Length 6.5 miles (approx. 3 hours). usually from early August to mid-September and female Parking St Johns Church, Grafton Flyford WR7 4PG distance Way footpath and passes through butterflies can be seen basking on blackthorn leaves (donation to church) Grafton Wood, part of the original Forest of Feckenham and Gates/Stiles A number of both gates and stiles. now a nature reserve managed by Butterfly Conservation between bouts of egg-laying. Male Brown Hairstreaks Terrain Some roadside walking and mostly flat terrain. and Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. Grafton Wood has are much more elusive, spending most of their lives high Kidderminster many fine trees and is full of wild flowers that attract many on ash trees where they can occasionally be spotted butterflies and other insects. Uncommon species like the Bromsgrove beautiful Silver-washed Fritillary and White Admiral are found flitting around the canopy. Brown Hairstreak eggs stay M5 Redditch in the wood and there is a circular nature trail that can be on blackthorn bushes all winter and are very vulnerable A449 followed if you would like to extend your walk. The trail also to hedge cutting. A number of hedgerows that you pass Grafton Flyford passes the attractive villages of on the Trail are now only being cut every second or third Worcester A422 Himbleton and Earls Common, year, which means more eggs survive until the following which contain many fine buildings spring. Sympathetic hedgerow management is good for Malvern and are well worth a detour. Find out more online at: www.worcestershire.gov.uk/countryside Walk Worcestershire Grafton Flyford Hairstreak Butterfly Trail 6.5 miles S S and mostly flat terrain. Some roadside walking Terrain and stiles. A number of both gates Gates/Stiles (approx. 3 hours). 6.5 miles Length Fact File S P (donation to church) WR7 4PG Grafton Flyford Himbleton village St Johns Church, Parking Grafton Flyford or Three Parishes Hall, Start

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