Wild and Wonderful

  David and I joined Butterfly Conservation at the start of the lockdowns. For the last two years I have been counting butterflies for the G...

  I always look forward to the start of what I might call the 'UK butterfly season', and it was a joy to see this Peacock in one of ...

  At long last, the day finally arrived! I saw my first butterfly of the year, a smart male Brimstone, gracing our garden yesterday.  But ...

  This is the first year I have taken part in the Butterfly Conservation Garden Butterfly Survey . I have the rest of November and December ...

  20 September 2020, Peacock butterfly in our Suffolk garden       Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been taking part in th...

This post was due to record butterflies seen in August for my Garden Butterfly Survey for Butterfly Conservation, and indeed it will. ...

We enjoyed views of ripening barley from a very peaceful country lane (I think everyone must have headed for the beach at nearby Felixsto...

I am glad to report that, despite numerous overcast days, my Garden Butterfly Survey numbers for July were considerably up on my June ...

I had a tip-off that these beautiful butterflies were on the wing in our area, but it came as a surprise when we found one in our garde...

Back on 4 April , the day we on which we saw the only Comma we have seen in the garden so far, we planted a little pack of wildflower s...

Speckled Wood, 1 June 2020 I decided that one of my lock-down projects would be to take part in the Garden Butterfly Survey laid on ...

I just missed the chance of trying to identify a blue damselfly in the garden on Saturday. David saw it on the Ceanothus and called me...