March 2026

Well spring starts officially at the Spring Equinox, which this year is on 20th March. ‘Meteorological Spring’ started yesterday. This ...

Today the Goat Willow (Salix caprea) catkins were attracting the attention of three different bees, Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), ...

Another sunny day, but not much new to report. Still just the same few bee species around and not much ...

The Brimstone butterflies are back and in much larger numbers this time. A single Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) was also ...

Many trees and shrubs are now starting to show leaf buds opening. Most advanced seem to be honeysuckle vines, wild ...

A nice, sunny but windy morning. Again, not too many insects on the wing, apart from queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees either ...

Another sunny yet windy morning – the ’March winds’ are definitely upon us. That didn’t stop me from finding something ...

Today, a search of evergreen leaves turned up this tiny (+/-2mm) sub-adult female(?) Bleeding Heart Spider (Nigma puella) on an ...

A cloudless, warm morning, with weather forecasters predicting the hottest day of the year so far. The insect population of ...

Yesterday’s warm weather and sunshine continued today, but while there were still a lot of Brimstone on the wing numbers ...

Today marks the Vernal (Spring) Equinox, the official start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Having spent 40 years south ...

Another day of glorious sunshine, but the temperature yet another 1° cooler. While butterflies were all but absent again it ...

Just like two days ago butterflies were all but absent today, with my total seen only 2. However, these were ...

A very windy and overcast day, so not much in the way of insects on the wing. No butterflies, 2 ...

A sunny, but cold day. The March winds continue again limiting the number of butterflies on the wing. Total count ...

Much colder this morning. As I set out the temperature was reported as 8°C (feels like 5°C taking the wind ...

A chill wind blowing again this morning, strong enough to make close-up photography quite challenging. Usually, individual leaves can be ...