Visual, no photo, one very worn Long-tailed Blue arriving in our garden this afternoon. First spotted by Sue when it was nectaring on Bird's-foot trefoil and resting with wings open for 10 to 15 minutes, I had a brief sighting of its under wing before I spooked it when I approached closer to it. We failed to find it during the remainder of the afternoon, but it may have hunkered down to recuperate after its suspected channel crossing. Its arrival is some three weeks earlier than the 2023 Newhaven sighting, but not unexpected given the heat events occurring over the last four months in North Africa, Spain and France.