September 2026

Meadow Brown is no longer the dominant butterfly species. That honour now goes to Small Copper, with all 8 that ...

A sunny morning with just a light breeze, yet there were so few butterflies about that it was quite easy ...

A mostly cloudy, humid and rather windy morning. Counting the butterflies today was easy – 3 Small Heath and just ...

Even fewer butterflies about today. Only 2 Small Copper, 2 Small Heath and a single Meadow Brown were seen. Three ...

A morning that must have been close to 100% humidity – without a moderate breeze we would probably have had ...

Well, the total butterfly count today was a single Small Copper. We are definitely approaching the end of flight season ...

I thought that today’s warm, almost windless conditions might just bring out the last few diehard butterflies and I wasn’t ...

The butterflies are easy to count now. Today’s total was 3, but all different, Small White, Small Copper and surprisingly ...

My walk today was badly timed, with the cloud cover only giving way to sunshine as I arrived home. As ...

Just like last Friday, there was only one butterfly seen this morning. It was also a Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) ...