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Blue Tit, Holly Blue, Bullfinch and Peacock

Today was the best forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend and so it proved to be with 10 species of butterfly again spotted, in addition...

A bright and pleasant Friday again brought out a good number of butterflies in the wood, with a few dragonflies spotted over Netherton...

A decent Thursday afternoon before the Bank Holiday weekend and 10 different species of butterfly were spotted on the site of the former...

The site of the former house, which has by accident become the best place for butterflies in the wood, is due to be auctioned on 3...

A quick Saturday morning visit to catch the sunshine while it lasted. A fair number of butterflies were active including this mating...

It has come to my attention that a housing developer, Persimmon Homes, has recently purchased the site of the former Kuehne & Nagel...

My first Saltwells posting for a week or so due to a short break on the Isle of Wight and my first visit of the year to Grafton Wood at...

A new site for white-letter hairstreaks was found today (albeit by my dad!) with the butterflies seemingly drawn to a particular patch of...

Yet another bright but breezy day still proved quite successful on the butterfly front. A pair of mating meadow browns were spotted on...

Another white-letter hairstreak hunt on a cool, overcast and quite windy Tuesday afternoon made photo taking incredibly frustrating....