Wild and Wonderful

  This dainty Brown Argus is the most recent butterfly to appear in our garden this year. It represents the 15th species spotted within our ...

  Old photo from a 2006 sighting   We were having lunch in the garden one day last week when a Clouded Yellow butterfly flew into the garde...

  The photos above show my 2022 notebook for counting butterflies in our suburban Suffolk garden. Many people prefer to add their sightings ...

Green Hairstreak, one of three seen at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 14 May 2022 There is something intriguing about a green butterfly, probably becau...

    We are thrilled to have Sparrows in the garden this year. A hedge was disturbed by some building work a few houses away, and I am guessi...

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

  Those following this blog will know that I have been taking part in the Butterfly Conservation Garden Butterfly Survey this year. There i...

  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. ...