Mungo in North Yorks

20 Jun 2012

On 16 June Mungo was still at Flanders Moss NNR but by the 18 June he was in the North Yorks Moors National Park – this is a movement of 280km (175 miles) in a south-easterly direction. It is interesting that he has chosen to move to another upland area – there should be plenty of large hairy caterpillars for him here in the rough grassland adjacent to the heather moorland.

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